Jonah 4:2,Jonah 4:3

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jonah 4:1-11

The final picture of the controversy between Jonah and Jehovah reveals most vividly, through Jonah, the attitude of the ancient people which his story was intended to correct, and Jehovah's care for, and patience with, all sinning peoples, which they so little understood. The prophet went out of the city, and in distress and resentment sat in a booth of his own making to watch the course of events. Again the overruling of Jehovah was manifest in the prepared gourd, the prepared worm, and the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 4:1-11

YHWH Uses An Illustration In Order to Demonstrate To Jonah The Reasonableness Of His Mercy (Jonah 4:1-11 ). The mercy of YHWH having been revealed in chapter 1 to the mariners, in chapter 2 to Jonah, and in chapter 3 to the Ninevites, His mercy is now underlined as God seeks to teach Jonah a lesson in mercy. Jonah was clearly still very angry that YHWH should show mercy to the Assyrians. This may have been because of what they had done to his family when they had previously invaded northern... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 4:2-3

‘And he prayed to YHWH, and said, “I pray you, O YHWH, was not this what I said when I was yet in my own country? Therefore I rushed to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repent yourself of the evil. Therefore now, O YHWH, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” So in his anger Jonah prayed that YHWH would take his life from him because he felt it better to die than to... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 4:1-11

Jonah 4. Jonah’ s Intolerance Rebuked and God’ s Mercy Vindicated.— God’ s clemency to Nineveh made Jonah very angry. It was not, as we might be tempted to suppose, that he felt his professional credit as a prophet to be ruined by the failure of his prediction. The mischief lay deeper than that. For it was patent enough even to the Ninevites that the message left a loophole of escape, and might have for its object to bring them to repentance. While the prediction had failed, its failure was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 4:2

And he prayed; in a strange distempered humour sets about this work, and accordingly manageth it; when he designs to pray, his turbulent affections hurry him into unseemly contests and quarrels with God, yet since he fell on his knees with purpose to pray to God, the Scriptures report it as his prayer to the Lord. And said; either spake it out in words, or else thus reasoned within himself, and now leaves it recorded what were his words, or his thoughts. I pray thee, O Lord: this begins his... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jonah 4:1-10

CRITICAL NOTES.] Angry] Lit. hot with anger; to burn inwardly: the verb usually restricted to anger, but (Jonah 4:4; Jonah 4:9) rendered to grieve. Jonah’s vexation grew to anger. Nineveh’s destruction would have been a warning to Israel, but God had preserved it, and he appeared to have no hope for the reformation of his country. Jonah 4:2. Word] Saying or cogitation. i.e. Did I not say to myself? Land] Palestine. Fled] I prevented to flee, i.e. I endeavoured by flight to prevent. Gracious]... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 4:1-11

Jonah 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the prophet's burial and resurrection. When the Jews asked for a sign He refused it, (i) because it was presumptuous to ask it; (ii) because they were blind to actual signs already given and constantly existing before their eyes; (iii) because the very demand was a proof of deep ungodliness, and the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Jonah 4:2

DISCOURSE: 1202THE MERCY OF GODJohn 4:2. I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.IN the parable of the Prodigal Son, we read of as hateful a character as can well be imagined: it is that of the elder brother, who, instead of uniting with his family in rejoicing over the recovery of the younger brother from his evil ways, took occasion, from his father’s parental tenderness, to reproach him for partiality and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jonah 4:1-11

Chapter 4But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, and he said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this what I said to you, when I was still in my own country? And this is why I fled to go to Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, and you're slow to anger, and of great kindness, and you do not want to bestow evil ( Obadiah 1:1-2 )."God, I knew it. Oh, I'm so mad. Just what I was afraid was going to happen happened. Isn't this... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 4:1-11

Jonah 4:6 . A gourd. Plants of this genera exceed all others in the rapidity of their growth. Jonah 4:11 . Six score thousand infants. By consequence, the elder children and adults, must have swelled the population to far more than half a million of people. REFLECTIONS. CHAP. 3, 4. We here find Jonah in the temple, paying vows to the Lord; we also find the same Word of the Lord renewing his commission to cry against Nineveh. Let us follow the well-instructed prophet, with an attentive... read more