Jonah 4:1

It — The divine forbearance sparing Nineveh.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Jonah was displeased exceedingly - It was an untempered zeal. The prophet himself records it as such, and how he was reproved for it. He woul...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

But it displeased (a) Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. (a) Because by this he would be taken as a false prophet, and so the name of God, wh...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 tempte...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

displeased . vexed. Not the waywardness of. child, but the displeasure of. man of God, for great and sufficient reason to him. Now that Nineveh wa...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jerome commends this grief of Jonah, and compares it to the holy zeal of Paul when he wished himself to be an anathema for his brethren, ( Roma...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly - This hasty, and indeed inconsiderate prophet, was v...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly— Seeing that what he had foretold against the Ninevites did not happen, Jonah was afraid, lest he should pass f...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry - literally, hot, prob...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 indi...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

IV. JONAH’S DISCONTENT AND CORRECTION. (1) But it displeased Jonah. — The Hebrew ( it was evil to ) is stronger. The prophet was vexed and irrit...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 desc...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The final picture of the controversy between Jonah and Jehovah reveals most vividly, through Jonah, the attitude of the ancient people which his stor...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS We have here a sad view of the mind of Jonah; the Lord's grace to Nineveh excites the Prophet's displeasure. he is reproved by the Lord und...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. Jonah was "mirabilis homo", as one calls him, an "amazing man"; the strangest, oddest,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. Ver. 1. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly ] Mirabilis homo profecto fuit Ionas, sa...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But it The divine forbearance in sparing Nineveh; displeased Jonah exceedingly “Seeing that what he had foretold against the Ninevites did not ha...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Discontent. B. C. 840. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JONAH CHAPTER 4 Jonah, repining at God's mercy, Jonah 4:1-3 , is reproved by the type of a gourd, Jonah 4:4-11 . But, Heb. And, it , the D...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘But it displeased Jonah greatly, and he was angry.' Jonah was not at all pleased that God had had mercy on the Ninevites, indeed he was more than d...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 reveale...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 gri...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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 differ...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jonah 4:1 . But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. A nice prophet this! Jonah was a man of a somewhat ugly disposition, yet...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 g...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 cons...
The Biblical Illustrator

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. The shortness of human charity Why is Jonah so much offended and so very angry? Sur...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, namely, that the Lord did not carry out His threat of punishment upon the people of Nineveh, and he was very an...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 13:46 ; James 4:5 ; James 4:6 ; Jonah 4:9 ; Luke 15:28 ; Luke 7:39 ; Matthew 20:15

¹ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

Related Commentaries of Jonah 4:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jonah 4:1