...defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " 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." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures were enclosed within the city...

..." Shall I not spare Nineveh," answered Jehovah, " 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 ?" Sardanapalus was, of all the sovereigns recorded in history, the most effeminate and voluptuous...

...defence. The prophet Jonah describes Nineveh, as " 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." In this passage the mention of cattle clearly intimates that pastures were enclosed within the city...

...for their salvation with his overzealous prophet, saying, " Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow...right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ?" 1 — can we doubt, I say, that He who chose out those people by the predestination of His grace...

...for their salvation with hi* overzealous prophet, saying, "Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow...between their right hand and their left hand ; and ako much cattle?"1 — can we doubt, I say, that He who chose out those people by the predestination...

...Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured neither made it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in...spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left ?" The same affection...

...lesson conveyed in the two last verses. " Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the Gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow...perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, * In Hebrew Kikajon, called by Pliny Cici or Kiki. It is singular that the oil expressed from the seeds...

...do well to be angry, even untodeath. 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 : 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons...

...Jonah sent to preach repentance to the Ninevites, in " 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 ;"t and that their unnamed king, and all his people, received the divine warning with reverence, humbling...

...They might have responded, "What, this great 'city be destroyed! — a city that contains sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their...right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ! Impossible ; God is too good to destroy us, though we repent not." But not so reasoned the people...