| Walter Scott - 1848 - 462 pages
...remembering the affecting plea which the Deity himself condescended to use with his vindictive prophet: " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 pages
...said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither modest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Then said the Lord, I have done this purposely to shew thee thine own error and weakness: thou hadst... | |
| George Rogers - 1837 - 204 pages
...his mercy. " 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...spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand souls that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also... | |
| Thomas Laurie (minister of Newburn.) - 1837 - 420 pages
...of the Prophet,) " Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in...spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ?" Surely their... | |
| 1837 - 1068 pages
...Jonah 4: 11, that in Nineveh " there were more than six score thousand persons who could not discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle."* According to the common estimate this would give 600,000 for the entire population ; the same number... | |
| Georg Lorenz Bauer - 1838 - 190 pages
...Jehovah: — " 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...right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ?"—Chap. iv. 10, 11. Here is the thought that God is the Creator of the many inhabitants of Nineveh,... | |
| Edward Farr - 1838 - 396 pages
...his creature: " 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: and should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern... | |
| Charles Bradley - 1839 - 446 pages
...hast had pity on the gourd," he said to Jonah, "for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it grow, which came up in a night and perished in...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" In his providence, he often says the same to me. As I contemplate the ruin he has spread around me,... | |
| Charles Bradley - 1839 - 446 pages
...gourd," he said to Jonah, "for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it JONAH S GOURD. 123 grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night;...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" In his providence, he often says the same to me. As I contemplate the ruin he has spread around me,... | |
| William Youatt - 1839 - 238 pages
...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: and should...cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle ?" If considerations of such a kind could have power in averting the destruction... | |
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