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
And it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Matthew 18:33
shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-bondman, as I also had compassion on thee?
Luke 15:28
But he became angry and would not go in. And his father went out and besought him.

Nineveh

Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Jonah 3:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.

That cannot

Deuteronomy 1:39
And your little ones, of whom ye said, They shall be a prey, and your children, who this day know neither good nor evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

And also

Psalm 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.
Psalm 104:14
He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,
Psalm 145:8
Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

General references

Genesis 9:10
and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark every animal of the earth.