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Jonah 4

King James Version · 11 verses · 211 cross-references linking it to 124 other chapters

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  1. 1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.14 cross-references: Luke 15:28, Jonah 4:9, Jonah 4:4, Matthew 20:15, James 4:5–6
  2. 2And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.51 cross-references: Exodus 34:6–7, Psalms 86:15, Numbers 14:18–19, Joel 2:13–14, Psalms 145:8
  3. 3Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.25 cross-references: 1 Kings 19:4, Ecclesiastes 7:1, Numbers 11:15, Jeremiah 20:14–18, Jonah 4:8
  4. 4Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?12 cross-references: Matthew 20:15, Jonah 4:9, James 1:19–20, Psalms 106:32–33, Micah 6:3
  5. 5So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.10 cross-references: 1 Kings 19:13, 1 Kings 19:9, Isaiah 57:17, Jeremiah 17:15–16, Genesis 19:27–28
  6. 6And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.11 cross-references: Psalms 103:10–14, 1 Corinthians 7:30, Isaiah 39:2, Esther 5:9, Luke 10:20
  7. 7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.9 cross-references: Joel 1:12, Job 1:21, Psalms 102:10, Isaiah 40:6–8, Psalms 30:6–7
  8. 8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.36 cross-references: Psalms 121:6, Jonah 4:3, Ezekiel 19:12, Revelation 3:19, Isaiah 49:10
  9. 9And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.25 cross-references: Job 5:2, Job 40:4–5, Genesis 4:5–14, Job 18:4, Judges 16:16
  10. 10Then 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:3 cross-references: 1 Samuel 20:31, Genesis 17:12
  11. 11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?27 cross-references: Matthew 18:33, Luke 15:28–32, Psalms 145:8–9, Psalms 36:6, Jonah 1:2

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