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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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: and should not I spare Nineveh, — “Nineveh, for which I have laboured; Nineveh, which I made to grow; Nineveh, which has been many years in the building; Nineveh, which contains...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city?.... See Jonah 1:2; what is such a gourd or plant to that? wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons; or twelve myriads; that is, twelve times ten thousand, or a hundred and twenty thousand; meaning not all the inhabitants of Nineveh; for then it would not have appeared to be so great a city;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; — This is always supposed to mean infants, and I judge that the supposition is a correct one. So Nineveh had a population of over one hundred and twenty thousand who were under two years old, so it must have been an...