Doest thou well to be angry: or, Art thou greatly angry, Jonah 4:9; Numbers 20:11-12, Numbers 20:24; Psalms 106:32-33; Micah 6:3; Matthew 20:15; James 1:19-20
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Jonah 4:4
Jonah 4:4
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Nineveh, upon their repentance. This gives us occasion to suspect that
Jonah had only delivered the message of wrath against the Ninevites,…Jonah 4:4Jonah 4:4 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThen 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, and struck him dead…