Jonah 4:11

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?

Should

Nineveh

Jonah 1:2

Jonah 3:2

That cannot

Deuteronomy 1:39

And also

Psalm 36:6

Psalm 104:14

Psalm 145:8

General references

Genesis 9:10

Bible References

Should

But Jonah was greatly displeased and became furious.

“Come, let us discuss this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
they will be like wool.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Nineveh

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness has confronted Me.”

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”

That cannot

Your little children, whom you said would be plunder, your sons who don’t know good from evil, will enter there. I will give them the land, and they will take possession of it.

And also

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.

He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.

General references

and with every living creature that is with you—birds, livestock, and all wildlife of the earth that are with you—all the animals of the earth that came out of the ark.