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NASB | Jonah 4:10 Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jonah 4:10 Then the LORD said, "You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight. |
Bible Question: The last few scriptures of Jonah are a bit unclear to me, if someone could explain them that would be great. |
Bible Answer: In addition to Sir Pent's excellent post, I'd like to add the Lord's commentary from the famous parable, The Prodical Son from Luke. Luke 15:25 "Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27'Your brother has come,' he replied, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.' 28"The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!' 31" 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'" You see the Israelite nation had developed a rather "exclusive" relationship with God, or at least in their mind, it was exclusive. They didn't want to share any of the benefits/blessings of God with the rest of the world of gentiles; that includes most all of us. God from the beginning intended to bless the whole world with the ultimate benefit of salvation with His Son's sacrifice. That's made pretty plain with curse on the serpent in the Garden of Eden. But of course, the Jewish nation got rather hooked on this feeling of superiority and wanted the Messiah to lead them to conquer their whole world and be their physical king here on earth. So we can see some correlation between God's handling of Jonah and the way the Prodical Son's father treated his older son. God bless. |
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Rowdy |