Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Jonah 4:5
made him. made for himself.
booth. hut.
become of. happen to. Hoping for its overthrow.
made him. made for himself.
booth. hut.
become of. happen to. Hoping for its overthrow.
Verse Jonah 4:5. _SO JONAH WENT OUT OF THE CITY_] I believe this refers to what had _already passed_; and I therefore agree with Bp. _Newcome_, who translates, "Now Jonah HAD gone out of the city, an...
SO JONAH WENT OUT OF THE CITY - o, The form of the words implies (as in the English Version), that this took place after Jonah was convinced that God would spare Nineveh; and since there is no intimat...
CHAPTER 4 Jonah's Discontent and Correction _ 1. Jonah's discontent (John 4:1) _ 2. The correction (John 4:4) John 4:1. All that had happened displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry. Did...
JONAH 4. JONAH'S INTOLERANCE REBUKED AND GOD'S MERCY VINDICATED. God's clemency to Nineveh made Jonah very angry. It was not, as we might be tempted to suppose, that he felt his professional credit as...
Jonah 4:1-11. Jonah's Displeasure, and its Rebuke Greatly displeased at the clemency of God towards Nineveh, Jonah confesses that it was the expectation that that clemency would be exercised, which r...
_So Jonah went out of the city_ It has been proposed to take the verbs in this verse as pluperfects: "Now Jonah had gone out of the city, and abode on the east side of the city, &c." The verse will th...
_WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE TO BE ANGRY? -- JONAH 4:4-5:_ Jonah's anger was not justified. So the Lord asked, "Do you think you have reason to be angry?" (Jonah 4:4) The question was not asked to provide...
DISCOURSE: 1203 JONAH’S GOURD John 4:5. 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 be...
SO JONAH WENT OUT, &C.— _Now Jonah had gone out—and he sat,_ &c. The author of the _Observations_ asks upon this difficult passage, Did Jonah make himself a booth of boughs, in which to wait the event...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING AHEAD OF GODTHE DEMONSTRATION BY JEHOVAH TEXT: Jonah 4:4-10 4 And Jehovah said, Doest thou well to be angry? 5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of...
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. SO JONAH WENT OUT O...
JONAH'S JEALOUSY CONTRASTED WITH JEHOVAH'S COMPASSION 1. Jonah's anger has a double cause, wounded pride that his words are proved false, and indignation that the God of Israel should pity heathen, o...
THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 V1 Jonah was upset and angry. V2 He complained, ‘Lord, did I not say before I left home that you would do this? I thought that yo...
SO JONAH WENT OUT. — The explanation given in the preceding note avoids the necessity of giving the verb in this clause a pluperfect force, which else would be necessary to account for the prophet’s c...
וַ יֵּצֵ֤א יֹונָה֙ מִן ־הָ עִ֔יר וַ
ISRAEL'S JEALOUSY OF JEHOVAH John 4:1 HAVING illustrated the truth, that the Gentiles are capable of repentance unto life, the Book now describes the effect of their escape upon Jonah, and closes by...
THE PROPHET'S NARROWNESS REBUKED John 4:1-11 This chapter marks an era in the development of the outlook of the Hebrew people. Here, upon its repentance, a heathen city was pardoned. Clearly Jehovah...
The final picture of the controversy between Jonah and Jehovah reveals most vividly, through Jonah, the attitude of the ancient people which his story was intended to correct, and Jehovah's care for,...
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, (e) till he might see what would become of the city. (e) For he doubte...
_Went, or "had gone," waiting for the city's ruin. (Calmet)_...
I cannot sufficiently admire, nor adore, the condescending benignity of the Lord, in the tender method the Lord took to recover the Prophet from his petulance. Reader! look at the Lord in those gracio...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...
Gordo I. INTRODUCTION A. This morning we come to the 4th and final chapter of the book of Jonah. 1. As far a Nineveh is concerned, the book could have ended with chapter 3. a) They repented, the L...
It may be here doubted whether Jonah had waited till the forty days had passed, and whether that time had arrived; for if we say that he went out of the city before the fortieth day, another question...
The God of grace has compassion on the works of His hands, when they humble themselves before Him and tremble at the hearing of His righteous judgments. But Jonah, instead of caring for them, thinks o...
SO JONAH WENT OUT OF THE CITY,.... Had not the inhabitants of it repented, he had done right to go out of it, and shake the dust of his feet against it; or, in such a case, had he gone out of it, as L...
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. Ver. 5. _So Jonah wen...
_Doest thou well to be angry?_ What a mild reproof was this from God, for such a passionate behaviour as Jonah manifested! Here the prophet experienced that Jehovah was _a gracious God, merciful, and...
JONAH'S DISPLEASURE AND THE LORD'S REPROOF. That Jonah was easily swayed by his emotions is evident from the entire story of his book, but appears particularly from the last Chapter. At the same time...
So Jonah, still smarting under the displeasure which he felt, WENT OUT OF THE CITY AND SAT ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE CITY, choosing a place in its immediate neighborhood, AND THERE MADE HIM A BOOTH, a t...
5-11 Jonah went out of the city, yet remained near at hand, as if he expected and desired its overthrow. Those who have fretful, uneasy spirits, often make troubles for themselves, that they may stil...
So, when the Lord had taken notice and reproved the passions of Jonah, and made some impression on his mind for the present, JONAH WENT OUT OF THE CITY; discontented in himself, and doubtful of the is...
Jonah 4:5 Jonah H3124 out H3318 (H8799) city H5892 sat H3427 (H8799) side H6924 city H5892 made...
‘Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made for himself a shelter, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.' Perhaps J...
YHWH USES AN ILLUSTRATION IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE TO JONAH THE REASONABLENESS OF HIS MERCY (JONAH 4:1). The mercy of YHWH having been revealed in chapter 1 to the mariners, in chapter 2 to Jonah, and...
John 4:5 I. Jonah sat in his booth, dark and moody plunged into deep distress by the very things which brought relief and hope to the great city. The reasons for his displeasure were manifold. He was...
JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...
You know all about Jonah's refusal to go upon the Lord's errand, and how he was held to it, and carried to his work in a great fish as he would not go by himself. Somehow or other, God will make his s...
CONTENTS: Jonah's displeasure over God's action toward Nineveh. The sheltering gourd. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah. CONCLUSION: Though there be these who find it in their hearts to quarrel with the goodnes...
Jonah 4:6. _A gourd._ Plants of this genera exceed all others in the rapidity of their growth. Jonah 4:11. _Six score thousand_ infants. By consequence, the elder children and adults, must have swell...
_So Jonah went out of the city._ GOD’S EXPOSTULATION WITH JONAH We may presume that Jonah had two reasons for going out of Nineveh. One was, that he might provide for his personal safety. The other,...
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 4:5 Jonah’s Lesson about Compassion. The seventh and final episode has no parallel and thus stands out as the climax of the story. ⇐
CRITICAL NOTES.] ANGRY] Lit. hot with anger; to burn inwardly: the verb usually restricted to anger, but (Jonah 4:4; Jonah 4:9) rendered to grieve. Jonah’s vexation grew to anger. Nineveh’s destructio...
EXPOSITION JONAH 4:1 JONAH'S DISPLEASURE AND ITS CORRECTION. JONAH 4:1 1. Jonah is grieved at the sparing of Nineveh, the expectation of which had led to his former flight
CHAPTER IX. GOD'S WAYS VINDICATED, AND THE PROPHET'S VIEWS RECTIFIED AND ENLARGED IT would seem, from the concluding portion of the narrative, that the Divine purpose respecting Nineveh had been commu...
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed unto the LORD, and he said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this what I said to you, when I was still in my own country? And this...
1 Kings 19:13; 1 Kings 19:9; Genesis 19:27; Genesis 19:28; Isaiah 57
A booth — Some small and mean shed, probably of green boughs. 'Till he might see — It seems the forty days were not fully expired....