Jonah 4:11 “So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more t…”

Jonah 4:11

So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And 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?

World English Bible

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”

American Standard Version

and should not I have regard for 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?

Geneva Bible 1599

And shoulde not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are sixe score thousande persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand, and their left hand, and also much cattell?

Darby Translation

and I, should not I have pity on Nineveh, the great city, wherein are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Young's Literal Translation

and I — have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left — and much cattle!'

Bible in Basic English

And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?

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Cross references

“should”

Matthew 18:33 Luke 15:28–32 Isaiah 1:18 Jonah 4:1

Matthew 18:33 · BSB

Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’

Luke 15:28–32 · BSB

The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

Isaiah 1:18 · BSB

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

Jonah 4:1 · BSB

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.

“Nineveh”

Jonah 1:2 Jonah 3:2 Jonah 3:3

Jonah 1:2 · BSB

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

Jonah 3:2 · BSB

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”

Jonah 3:3 · BSB

This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.

“that cannot”

Deuteronomy 1:39

Deuteronomy 1:39 · BSB

And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

“and also”

Psalm 36:6 Psalm 104:14 Psalm 104:27 Psalm 104:28 Psalm 145:8 Psalm 145:9

Psalm 36:6 · BSB

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Psalm 104:14 · BSB

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Psalm 104:27 · BSB

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

Psalm 104:28 · BSB

When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.

Psalm 145:8 · BSB

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

Psalm 145:9 · BSB

The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Also

Jonah 3:10–4:1

Jonah 3:10–4:1 · BSB

When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

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