Jonah 4:2 Topical Bible

◄ Jonah 4:2 ►

So he prayed to the LORD, saying, "O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion--One who relents from sending disaster.

People

Jonah

Places

Nineveh, Tarshish

Topics

Abounding, Abundant, Ah, Anger, Angry, Beforehand, Calamity, Care, Compassionate, Evil, Fled, Flee, Flight, Forestall, Full, Gracious, Harm, Haste, Hasted, Home, Hurried, Kindness, Long-suffering, Love, Loving, Lovingkindness, Loving-kindness, Merciful, Mercy, Minded, O, Order, Pity, Please, Prayed, Prayer, Prayeth, Purpose, Quick, Ready, Relent, Relents, Repentest, Repenting, Saying, Sending, Slow, Steadfast, Tarshish, Wasn't, Yet

Outline

1. Jonah repining at God's mercy,
4. is reproved by the type of a withering vine.

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Jonah 4:2

     1085   God, love of
     1095   God, patience of
     1120   God, repentance of
     1160   God, unchangeable
     1205   God, titles of
     1310   God, as judge
     5036   mind, of God
     5790   anger, divine
     5934   restraint
     6615   atonement, necessity
     6687   mercy, God's
     8135   knowing God, nature of
     8203   character
     8318   patience
     8330   receptiveness

Jonah 4:1-2

6667 grace, in OT

Jonah 4:1-3

5067 suicide
8615 prayer, doubts

Jonah 4:1-4

5821 criticism, among believers

Jonah 4:1-5

5945 self-pity

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Library

The Gourd. Jonah 4:07
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John Newton—Olney Hymns

Whether God's Mercy Suffers at Least Men to be Punished Eternally?
Objection 1: It would seem that God's mercy does not suffer at least men to be punished eternally. For it is written (Gn. 6:3): "My spirit shall not remain in man for ever because he is flesh"; where "spirit" denotes indignation, as a gloss observes. Therefore, since God's indignation is not distinct from His punishment, man will not be punished eternally. Objection 2: Further, the charity of the saints in this life makes them pray for their enemies. Now they will have more perfect charity in that …
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

Christian Meekness
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth Matthew 5:5 We are now got to the third step leading in the way to blessedness, Christian meekness. Blessed are the meek'. See how the Spirit of God adorns the hidden man of the heart, with multiplicity of graces! The workmanship of the Holy Ghost is not only curious, but various. It makes the heart meek, pure, peaceable etc. The graces therefore are compared to needlework, which is different and various in its flowers and colours (Psalm 45:14). …
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12

Jonah
The book of Jonah is, in some ways, the greatest in the Old Testament: there is no other which so bravely claims the whole world for the love of God, or presents its noble lessons with so winning or subtle an art. Jonah, a Hebrew prophet, is divinely commanded to preach to Nineveh, the capital of the great Assyrian empire of his day. To escape the unwelcome task of preaching to a heathen people, he takes ship for the distant west, only to be overtaken by a storm, and thrown into the sea, when, by …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

Parallel Verses

NASB: He prayed to the LORD and said, "Please LORD, was not this what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore in order to forestall this I fled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity.

KJV: And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

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