...extends to the meanest rank of his creatures, is expressed with wonderful tenderness : " Should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons... .and also much cattle!" And we have in Deuteronomy a precept of great goodnature of this sort, with...

...concerning Nineveh. 10 Then said the LORD, 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 : thou thickest it a pity that so beautiful and comfortable a plant should 11 be so soon destroyed,...

...said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither nradest it grow ; •which came up in a night, and perished in a night : thou thinkett it a pity that so beautiful and comfortable a plant should 11 he so soon destroyed,...

...compassion on the gourd, for " which thou hast not laboured, neither didst thou make " it grow, and which came up in a night, and perished in " a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great ci" ty, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons " that cannot discern between their right hand...

...upon tiicc from the womb, thou art my God from my mother's belly. Ps. Ixxi. 6. Jonah iv. 11. God said should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern them between their right hand and their left ? Mark...

...said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither modest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? Then said the Lord, I have done this purposely to shew thee thine own error and weakness : thou hadst...

...as well as for the loss of its shelter. — in- a night] Some MSS. and editions read joU? and tOi. cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? at a fifth part, the city contained six hundred thousand inhabitants. See Boch. Geogr. 252, 3. —...

...where God makes hii compassion to brute beasts, one of the reasons why he would cot destroy Nineveh. " 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...

...where God makes his compassion to brute beasts one of the reasons why he would not destroy Nineveh : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six icore thousand persons,' that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also...

...even TOto death. Then said the Lo RD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, 'lor'the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow : which came up in...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...