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Text -- Jonah 4:1-11 (NET)
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Jonah Responds to God’s Kindness
4:1 This displeased Jonah terribly and he became very angry .
4:2 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 gracious and compassionate , slow to anger and abounding in mercy , and one who relents concerning threatened judgment .
4:3 So now , Lord , kill me instead , because I would rather die than live !”
4:4 The Lord said , “Are you really so very angry ?”
4:5 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 .
4:6 The Lord God appointed a little plant and caused it to grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to rescue him from his misery . Now Jonah was very delighted about the little plant .
4:7 So God sent a worm at dawn the next day , and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.
4:8 When the sun began to shine , God sent a hot east wind . So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head , and he grew faint . So he despaired of life , and said , “I would rather die than live !”
4:9 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 !”
4:10 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 .
4:11 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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NET Notes -> Jon 4:1; Jon 4:1; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:2; Jon 4:3; Jon 4:3; Jon 4:4; Jon 4:4; Jon 4:4; Jon 4:5; Jon 4:5; Jon 4:5; Jon 4:6; Jon 4:6; Jon 4:6; Jon 4:6; Jon 4:6; Jon 4:7; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:8; Jon 4:9; Jon 4:9; Jon 4:9; Jon 4:10; Jon 4:10; Jon 4:10; Jon 4:11; Jon 4:11; Jon 4:11; Jon 4:11; Jon 4:11; Jon 4:11
NET Notes: Jon 4:1 Heb “it burned to him.” The verb חָרָה (kharah, “to burn”) functions figuratively here (hypocata...
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NET Notes: Jon 4:2 Jonah is precisely correct in his listing of the Lord’s attributes. See Exod 34:6-7; Num 14:18-19; 2 Chr 30:9; Neh 9:17, 31-32; Pss 86:3-8, 15; ...
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NET Notes: Jon 4:4 Heb “Does it burn to you?” The verb חָרָה (kharah, “to burn”) functions figuratively here (hypoc...
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NET Notes: Jon 4:5 Apparently Jonah hoped that he might have persuaded the Lord to “change his mind” again (see 3:8-10) and to judge Nineveh after all.
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NET Notes: Jon 4:6 Heb “he rejoiced with great joy.” The cognate accusative construction repeats the verb and noun of the consonantal root שׂ...
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NET Notes: Jon 4:7 Or “appointed.” The verb מָנָה (manah) in the Piel stem means “to send, to appoint” (Ps 61:8; Jo...
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