Jonah 4:11

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Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”
  • Matt 18:33 : 33 Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?’
  • Luke 15:28-32 : 28 But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him, 29 but he answered his father,‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends! 30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’ 31 Then the father said to him,‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours. 32 It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”
  • Deut 1:39 : 39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you, LORD, preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis. 28 You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.
  • Ps 145:8-9 : 8 The LORD is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love. 9 The LORD is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis. 16 You open your hand, and fill every living thing with the food they desire.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
  • Jonah 3:2-3 : 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, in keeping with the LORD’s message.(Now Nineveh was an enormous city– it required three days to walk through it!)
  • Jonah 3:10-4:1 : 10 When God saw their actions– that they turned from their evil way of living!– God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them. 1 Jonah Responds to God’s Kindness This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.

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  • Jonah 4:9-10
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    9 God said to Jonah,“Are you really so very angry about the little plant?” And he said,“I am as angry as I could possibly be!”

    10 The LORD said,“You were upset about this little plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.

  • Jonah 3:2-9
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    2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

    3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, in keeping with the LORD’s message.(Now Nineveh was an enormous city– it required three days to walk through it!)

    4 When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced,“At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

    5 The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

    6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat on ashes.

    7 He issued a proclamation and said,“In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.

    8 Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do.

    9 Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

  • Nah 3:7-8
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    7 Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say,‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”

    8 Nineveh Will Suffer the Same Fate as Thebes You are no more secure than Thebes– she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.

  • 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

  • Jer 9:9-10
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    9 I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the LORD.“I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!”

    10 The Coming Destruction Calls For Mourning I said,“I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”

  • 5 While I listened, he said to the others,“Go through the city after him and strike people down; do not let your eye pity nor spare anyone!

  • 8 Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out:“Stop! Stop!”– but no one turns back.

  • 24 What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

  • Jonah 4:1-2
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    1 Jonah Responds to God’s Kindness This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry.

    2 He prayed to the LORD and said,“Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish!– because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

  • Jonah 4:4-5
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    4 The LORD said,“Are you really so very angry?”

    5 Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made a shelter for himself there and sat down under it in the shade to see what would happen to the city.

  • Gen 18:29-32
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    29 Abraham spoke to him again,“What if forty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

    30 Then Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied,“I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

    31 Abraham said,“Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

    32 Finally Abraham said,“May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He replied,“I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

  • 9 I will surely punish them for doing such things!” says the LORD.“I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!”

  • 8 “‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another,“Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?”

  • 33 72,000 cattle,

  • 6 I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

  • 41 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

  • 32 The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them– and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

  • 26 So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

  • 3 The Sovereign LORD says this:“The city that marches out with a thousand soldiers will have only a hundred left; the town that marches out with a hundred soldiers will have only ten left for the family of Israel.”

  • 6 Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the LORD,“but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

  • Zeph 2:13-14
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    13 The LORD will attack the north and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a heap of ruins; it will be as barren as the desert.

    14 Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.

  • 22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

  • 3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

  • 29 I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the LORD.“I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!

  • 21 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments– sword, famine, wild animals, and plague– to Jerusalem to kill both people and animals!

  • 19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

  • 38 Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

  • 3 then the hand of the LORD will surely bring a very terrible plague on your livestock in the field, on the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.

  • 18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

  • 10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

  • 4 The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

  • 7 So the LORD said,“I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth– everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them.”

  • 14 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

  • 12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.