Jonah 4:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?"

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  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
  • Matt 18:33 : 33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
  • Luke 15:28-32 : 28 But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him. 29 But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.' 31 "He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours. 32 But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"
  • Deut 1:39 : 39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
  • Ps 36:6 : 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
  • Ps 104:14 : 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And plants for man to cultivate, That he may bring forth food out of the earth:
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 These all wait for you, That you may give them their food in due season. 28 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
  • Ps 145:8-9 : 8 Yahweh is gracious, merciful, Slow to anger, and of great loving kindness. 9 Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
  • Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand, And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
  • Isa 1:18 : 18 "Come now, and let us reason together," says Yahweh: "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Jonah 3:2-3 : 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you." 3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.
  • Jonah 3:10-4:1 : 10 God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God repented of the evil which he said he would do to them, and he didn't do it. 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

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    9God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?" He said, "I am right to be angry, even to death."

    10Yahweh said, "You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

  • Jonah 3:2-9
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    2"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

    3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

    4Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

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

    6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

    7He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, "Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;

    8but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

    9Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

  • Nah 3:7-8
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    7It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"

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  • Jonah 1:2
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    2"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

  • Jer 9:9-10
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    9Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.

  • Ezek 9:5
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    5To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity;

  • Nah 2:8
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    8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.

  • Gen 18:24
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    24What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are therein?

  • Jonah 4:1-2
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    1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

    2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you repent of the evil.

  • Jonah 4:4-5
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    4Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"

    5Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

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    29He spoke to him yet again, and said, "What if there are forty found there?" He said, "I will not do it for the forty's sake."

    30He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?" He said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."

    31He said, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake."

    32He said, "Oh don't let the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."

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    9Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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    8Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

  • Num 31:33
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    33and seventy-two thousand oxen,

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    6I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.

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    41The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

  • Luke 11:32
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    32The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

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    26Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

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    3For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, And that which went forth one hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel."

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    6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."

  • Zeph 2:13-14
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    13He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

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    22Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

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    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

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    29Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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    21For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!

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    19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

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    3behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your cattle which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.

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    18Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

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    10As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.

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    4Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

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    12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).