E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 4:9
I do well. Supply "I do well [it is right]". read more
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E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jonah 4:10
hast had pity on: or, wouldst have spared: same word as in Jonah 4:11 . came up in a night = was the son of a night. perished in a night = perished as the son of a night. read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 4:9
"And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death."The almost incredible stubbornness of Jonah is matched historically by only one thing, and that is the obstinate unwillingness of Israel to accept the Lord Jesus Christ, that being exactly the very event which this conduct on the part of Jonah was designed to foretell."Doest thou well ...?" How frequently in the divine solicitations concerning sinful mankind has the Father... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jonah 4:10
"And Jehovah said, Thou has had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.""Jonah's unreasonableness stands fully unmasked."[22] Yes, Jonah can be appreciative of a gourd, but has no feeling for the vast city with its teeming populations. He did not like to see even a gourd destroyed, but he would gloat over the destruction of half a million precious souls! A gourd is an ephemeral thing, here one day, gone... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jonah 4:10
Jonah 4:10. Thou hast had pity on the gourd— God confutes the impatient grief of Jonah by a similitude. "You acquiesced in that plant, which afforded you a shade; I acquiesce in the repentance of the Ninevites. Therefore you ought not to grieve because I spare them, unless you prefer your own advantage and reputation to my glory and will." That Jonah is an allegorical person, our blessed Saviour does not suffer us to doubt; who, when he taught that Jonah was a type of his resurrection, shewed... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:9
9. (See on :-). I do well to be angry, even unto death—"I am very much grieved, even to death" [FAIRBAIRN]. So the Antitype (Matthew 26:38). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:10
10, 11. The main lesson of the book. If Jonah so pities a plant which cost him no toil to rear, and which is so short lived and valueless, much more must Jehovah pity those hundreds of thousands of immortal men and women in great Nineveh whom He has made with such a display of creative power, especially when many of them repent, and seeing that, if all in it were destroyed, "more than six score thousand" of unoffending children, besides "much cattle," would be involved in the common... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 4:5-9
D. God’s rebuke of Jonah for his attitude 4:5-9The Lord proceeded to teach Jonah His ways and to confront him with his attitude problem. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jonah 4:9
God’s question here was very similar to His question in Jonah 4:4. Was Jonah right to be angry about the plant, God asked? Jonah’s reply was a strong superlative. [Note: D. Winton Thomas, "Consideration of Some Unusual Ways of Expressing the Superlative in Hebrew," Vetus Testamentum 3 (1953):220.] He felt that strong anger was proper. Evidently Jonah believed that God was not even treating him with the compassion that He normally showed all people, much less His chosen servants."The double... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jonah 4:1-11
A lesson about mercy (4:1-11)It now became clear why Jonah did not want to preach in Nineveh. He wanted the Ninevites to be destroyed, not spared; he wanted them to be punished, not forgiven. He knew that God was merciful to sinners, but he wanted this divine blessing reserved solely for the people of Israel. He would rather die than see Gentiles forgiven the same as Israelites (4:1-3).God wanted to make Jonah see that he had no right to be angry, but Jonah refused to listen. Apparently still... read more