 | Rool Noiman - 2002 - 214 pages
...repentance to them. Jonah as a prophet knew God very well — His nature. He described Him thus, "I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth thee of the evil" (Jonah 4: 2). This knowledge of God with the commission... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 324 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness . . ." (Jonah 4:2). Well did Jonah know, and that by personal experience, after his... | |
 | John Phillips - 2003 - 476 pages
...mercy, there is no hope for us. No one has described God's mercy better than Jonah, who said, "I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness" (Jonah 4:2). At the very time Jonah voiced this marvelous description of God's character,... | |
 | H. A. Ironside - 2004 - 322 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to... | |
 | John Phillips - 2004 - 232 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil" (Jonah 4:2). Jonah knew because Moses knew (Exod. 34:5—7; Num. 14:17—20). He knew because David... | |
 | John Phillips - 2004 - 296 pages
..."mercies." He is a God of all grace and of infinite mercy. He is the God of whom Jonah wrote, "I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness" (Jonah 4:2). Daniel's prayer continued with God and His commandments (9:10-14). Daniel... | |
 | Charles Pretlow - 2004 - 450 pages
...what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and repentest of evil. Therefore now, O Lord, take my life from me, I... | |
 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 626 pages
...not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou (art) a gracious God, and merciful, slow...of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil, 4:3 "Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for (it is) better for me to die... | |
 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 2005 - 429 pages
...and repented Him of the evil, for Jonah says : " Therefore I determined to flee before unto Tarshish, for I know that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness," &e,, and that, therefore, God would pardon the Ninevites. We conclude, therefore (inasmuch... | |
 | William R. Newell - 2005 - 506 pages
...this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil." Jonah knew God's ways so well that he... | |
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Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 
