Jonah 4:10

Which came up. — The original is one of those forcible idioms impossible to reproduce, which son of a night was, and son of a night perished.

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1 Samuel 20:31 ; Genesis 17:12
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Laboured — Thou didst not set it. Grow — Nor didst thou water or give growth to it.

¹⁰ Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pityc on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

Related Commentaries of Jonah 4:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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