 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 not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot...  Lowe's Edinburgh magazine - Page 4621847Full view - About this book
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 540 pages
...and evil, is an expression that denotes infancy. Thus in Nineveh it is said there were " more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and left hand," commonly supposed to denote infants. Jonah iv. 2. Comp. Deut. i. 39. The meaning is, that... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 1842 - 396 pages
...night and perished in a night : and 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 much cattle ?" 1 — can we doubt, I say, that He who chose out those people by... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - 1842 - 578 pages
...of oil their traditions allow them to burn on such occasions. that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?" GRASS. FestucaJluitans, Glyceria jluitans, — Sheep's Fescue, Flote... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1843 - 348 pages
...Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said, 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 ! Mark x. 14. Jesus said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of... | |
 | 1843 - 142 pages
...population. " Should not^I spare Nineveh, that great city, whereiiI are, THE CHRISTIAN CITIZEN. more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?" Almost every foreign visitor, who writes of this country, expresses astonishment at its vastness.... | |
 | Christian Gottlob Barth - 1844 - 298 pages
...night, and perished in a night. And 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 much cattle ?"a 52. THE LAST KINGS OP JUDAH. AFTER the division of the kingdom,... | |
 | 1866 - 824 pages
...borne any proportion to the are* occupied, like that which belongs to the towns and cities of ourdty. " Six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand " — a proverbial expression for yonng children — were mentioned as among its inhabitants... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1846 - 690 pages
...Doth God take care for oxen?" "And should I not 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 much cattle ?" It cannot be the caprice of power. But if some high principle of... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1847 - 500 pages
...night, and perished in a night : and 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 muck cattle 1" Here was a man, who had been sent by the Lord God of the Hebrews,... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1848 - 432 pages
...night, and perished in a night : and 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 muck cattle ?" Here was a man, who had been sent by the Lord God of the Hebrews,... | |
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