1 Jonah repining at God's mercy,
4 is reproved by the type of a gourd.

4:9 Mt 20:15 Lu 7:39 15:28 Ac 13:46 Jas 4:5,6

2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

he prayed. 1Ki 19:4 Jer 20:7

I fled. 1:3 Lu 10:29

thou art. Ex 34:6,7 Nu 14:18,19 Ps 78:38 86:5,15 145:8 Ho 11:8,9 Joe 2:13,14 Mic 7:18

and of. 3:10 Ex 32:14 Ps 90:13 Jer 18:8 Am 7:3,6

3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

take. Nu 11:15 20:3 1Ki 19:4 Job 3:20,21 6:8,9 Jer 20:14-18 Php 1:21-25

for. 8 Job 7:15,16 Ec 7:1 1Co 9:15

4 Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?

Doest thou well to be angry? or, Art thou greatly angry? 9 Nu 20:11,12,24 Ps 106:32,33 Mic 6:3 Mt 20:15 Jas 1:19,20

5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

Jonah. 1:5 1Ki 19:9,13 Isa 57:17 Jer 20:9

till. Ge 19:27,28 Jer 17:15,16 Lu 19:41-44

6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

the Lord. 1:17 Ps 103:10-14

gourd. or, palmcrist. Heb. Kikajon. [Qiyqayown <07021>,] probably the palma Christi, called {kiki,} or {kouki,} by the Egyptians, and {Elkherod} by the Arabs, from which caster oil is extracted. It is as large as the olive tree, has leaves like those of a vine, sometimes as broad as the brim of a hat, and is of very quick growth.

So. Es 5:9 Pr 23:5 Isa 39:2 Am 6:13 Lu 10:20 1Co 7:30

was exceeding glad. Heb. rejoiced with great joy.

7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

prepared. Job 1:21 Ps 30:6,7 102:10

it withered. Ps 90:5,6 Isa 40:6-8 Joe 1:12

8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

that God. 6,7 1:4,17 Eze 19:12 Re 3:19

vehement. or, silent. and the sun. Ps 121:6 So 1:6 Isa 49:10 Re 7:16

and wished. 3 Le 10:3 1Sa 3:18 2Sa 15:25,26 Job 2:10 Ps 39:9

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.

Doest thou well to be angry? or, Art thou greatly angry? 4

I do well to be angry. or, I am greatly angry. Ge 4:5-14 Job 18:4 40:4,5

even. Jud 16:16 Job 5:2 Mt 26:38 2Co 7:10 Re 9:6

10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

had pity on. or, spared. came up in a night. Heb. was the son of the night. 1Sa 20:31 Ge 17:12*marg.

11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

should. 1 Isa 1:18 Mt 18:33 Lu 15:28-32

Nineveh. 1:2 3:2,3

sixscore. It is generally calculated that the young children of any place are a fifth of the inhabitants, and consequently the whole population of Nineveh would amount to about 600,000; which is very inferior to that of London and Paris, though they occupy not one quarter of the ground. In eastern cities there are large vacant spaces for gardens and pasturages, so that there might be very much cattle.

that cannot. De 1:39

and also. Ps 36:6 104:14,27,28 145:8,9,15,16