 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...  The Eclectic Review - Page 349edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Robert Wilson Evans - 1848 - 356 pages
...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; and also much cattle?" As much as to say, If you see good reason why this trifling gourd should be spared, and can be thus... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 1849 - 698 pages
...exceeding great eity of three daye' journey" — "that great eity, wherein are more than sixscore thonsand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle." The prophet Nabum, who prophesicd abont 150 years later than Jonah, had a "burden of Nineveh" to deliver.... | |
 | 1840 - 556 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? " The margin reads, "Sparest the gourd," the meaning obviously is... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pages
...— 5. " Then said the Lord . . . 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 ?" — Jonah iv. 10, 1 1. " The burden of Nineveh" — Nahum i. 1.—... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 612 pages
...should be overthrown in forty days. " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between...right hand and their left, and also much cattle." — Jonah, iv., 11. This city, compared to which, sacred and venerable as it is by its alliance with... | |
 | John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool.) - 1850 - 288 pages
...to God, and God heard their cry. "Shall I not spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between...right hand and their left; and also MUCH CATTLE." (Jonah iv. 11.) — The character of God Himself makes it folly not to pray. "He does not afflict willingly."... | |
 | Paul Emile Botta - 1850 - 132 pages
...days' journey."—JONAH iii. 3. "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."—JONAH iv. 11. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER... | |
 | Paul Émile Botta - 1850 - 250 pages
...journey."— JONAH iii. 3. "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 alto much cattle."— JONAH iv. 11. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...called ' an exceeding great city of three days' journey (round about),' in which there were ' more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand' (that is, children, and a population of 120,000 children would argue a total population... | |
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