 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 sixscore thousand persons that cannot...  Retrospective Review - Page 247edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | William Greenfield - 1831 - 310 pages
...stated in Jon. 4. 11, that it contained ' more than sixscore thousand persons, that could not discern between their right hand and their left hand : and also much cattle.' It is generally calculated, that the young children of any place are a fifth of the inhabitants ; and... | |
 | William Greenfield - Bible - 1831 - 300 pages
...stated in Jon. 4. 11, that it contained ' more than sixscore thousand persons, that could not discern between their right hand and their left hand : and also much cattle.' It is generally calculated, that the young children of any place are a fifth of the inhabitants ; and... | |
 | British preacher - 1832 - 342 pages
...assigns as a reason for sparing Nineveh, the great number of young children which were in it : — " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein...and their left hand ; and also much cattle ?" Jonah iv. 11. Did he spare their lives, and the city in some measure for their sakes, and can we think that,... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...perished in a night : 11 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 ? BC 827. 2 CHRONICLES, xxv. 5 IT Moreover, Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...works. Pi. cxlv. 9. 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 .' J»imli iv. 11. 11 I will establish, Sec.] I will not again curse the ground any... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - Bible - 1833 - 200 pages
...their past lives, and to repent of their wickedness, and love and obey God. Besides, in the city there are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot...discern between their right hand and their left hand. These are young children and infants, who are not old enough yet to understand the difference between... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 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 hand ; and also much cattle ? " Here was a man, who had been sent by the Lord God of the Hebrews, as a kind of ambassador-extraordinary... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than threescore od of heaven and earth. " There is none like unto...God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy h One stage more will bring us with Israel to the foot of Sinai, to observe and to improve one of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 456 pages
...vindictive prophet : " 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?" Least of all ought we to wish that any part of the British forces had been partakers in the horrid... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 986 pages
..." Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand personsthat cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle 1" We need make no more than the angry prophet's comment — " I knew that thou art a gracious God,... | |
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