“ Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? ”
And the Lord said, Doest thou well to be angry? - o God, being appealed to, answers the appeal. So does He often in prayer, by some secret voice, answer the inquirer. There is right anger again...
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be (d) angry? (d) Will you judge when I do things for my glory, and when I do not?
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...
There is no doubt but that God by thus reproving Jonah condemns his intemperate warmth. But since God alone is a fit judge of man’s conduct, there is no reason for us to boast that we are influ...
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? Doest thou well to be angry? - ההיטב הרה לך haheitib harah lac, "Is anger good for thee?" No, anger is good for no man; but an angry preacher, ministe...
Doest thou well to be angry?— Hast thou a sufficient cause to be angry? God asks him, whether his reputation is of so great consequence, that for the defence of it many thousands of men who repen...
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry? - or grieved; margin, 'Art thou greatly, or much, angry,' or 'grieved?' (Fairbairn, with the...
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...
Doest thou well? ... — This rendering may be supported by Deuteronomy 5:28 ; Jeremiah 1:12 , and agrees better with the context than the marginal translation, which follows the LXX., and is undoub...
ISRAEL'S JEALOUSY OF JEHOVAH John 4:1-11 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 c...
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 Je...
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,...
Oh! precious, precious Lord Jesus! do we not see thee here, in this gentle tender expostulation? Reader, pray turn to Luke 9:51-56 .
USES OF ANGER ‘Doest thou well to be angry?’ ‘Be ye angry, and sin not.’ Jonah 4:4 (with Ephesians 4:26 ). The former text implies that there is an anger which is sinful; and the latter tex...
Then said the Lord, dost thou well to be angry ?] A mild and gentle reproof this; which shows him to be a God gracious and merciful, and slow to anger; he might have answered Jonah's passionate wish...
Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? Ver. 4. Doest thou do well to be angry? ] Or, what? art thou very angry? Nunquid recte? Summon the sobriety of thy senses before thine own judgme...
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...
The Prophet's Discontent. B. C. 840. 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was v...
Then, so soon as Jonah's haste had sinned against his God and his own life, said the Lord; either by voice audible to Jonah, or rather by his Spirit; that Spirit which gave Jonah order to go and prea...
YHWH Uses An Illustration In Order to Demonstrate To Jonah The Reasonableness Of His Mercy ( Jonah 4:1-11 ). The mercy of YHWH having been revealed in chapter 1 to the mariners, in chapter 2 to Jo...
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 des...
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...
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...
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...
Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry. Anger reproved Jonah’s anger was not justifiable; for it rose high against God, and quarrelled with the dispensations of His providence and grac...
EXPOSITION Jonah 4:1-32 JONAH 'S DISPLEASURE AND ITS CORRECTION . Jonah 4:1-32 1 . Jonah is grieved at the sparing of Nineveh, the expectation of which had led to his former f...
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 t...
James 1:19 ; James 1:20 ; Jonah 4:9 ; Micah 6:3 ; Matthew 20:15 ; Numbers 20:11 ; Numbers 20:12 ; Numbers 20:24 ; Psalms 106:32 ; Psalms 106:33