Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

That cannot

General references

Bible References

Should

Jonah 4:1
But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became angry.
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the Lord,
Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
Matthew 18:33
Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’
Luke 15:28
But he became angry and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

Nineveh

Jonah 1:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”
Jonah 3:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”

That cannot

Deuteronomy 1:39
Moreover, your little ones who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.

And also

Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
Psalm 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,
Psalm 145:8
The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

General references

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.