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Jonah 4:11
Jonah 4:11 is verse 11 of Jonah chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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?”
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?”
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Jonah 4:9–11 · Berean Standard Bible
9 Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
10 But 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.
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?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jonah 4:1Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
Isaiah 1:18“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.
Matthew 18:33Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?’
Luke 15:28The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.
Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
Luke 15:30But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
Luke 15:31‘Son, you are always with me,’ the father said, ‘and all that is mine is yours.
Luke 15:32But it was fitting to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
Jonah 1:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
Jonah 3:3This 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.
Deuteronomy 1:39And 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.
Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
Psalms 104:27All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
Psalms 104:28When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
Psalms 145:8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
Psalms 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.
Psalms 145:16You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.