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Jonah 4:10 Cross-References
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“Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity 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 : had pity: or, spared came: Heb. was the son of the night”
Jonah 4:10 (KJV)
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Commentary on Jonah 4:10
Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity 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—God's climactic argument. The Hebrew attah chasta al-haqiqayon asher lo-amalta bo velo giddaltho shebin-lailah hayah ubin-lailah abad (אַתָּה חַסְתָּ עַל־הַקִּיקָיוֹן אֲשֶׁר לֹא־עָמַלְתָּ בּוֹ וְלֹא גִדַּלְתּוֹ שֶׁבִּן־לַיְלָה הָיָה וּבִן־לַיְלָה אָבָד) contrasts Jonah's concern for plant versus God's concern for people. The verb "had pity" (chasah, חָסָה) means to spare, have compassion—Jonah felt something for the plant, if only ...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
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