"So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the…" — Jonah 4:5

Jonah 4:5 · KJV

“So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.”

— Jonah 4:5

Verse 4

Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? {Doest...: or, Art thou greatly angry?}

Verse 6

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made {it} to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. {gourd: or, palmcrist: Heb. Kikajon} {was...: Heb. rejoiced with great joy}

Jonah 4 — Context

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for {it is} better for me to die than to live.

Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry? {Doest...: or, Art thou greatly angry?}

So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:9

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD {came} to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?

Jeremiah 17:15-16

Behold, they say unto me, Where {is} the word of the LORD? let it come now.

Isaiah 57:17

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. {frowardly: Heb. turning away}

1 Kings 19:13

And it was {so}, when Elijah heard {it}, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, {there came} a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

Genesis 19:27-28

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:

Luke 19:41-44

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Jeremiah 20:9

Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But {his word} was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not {stay}.

Jonah 1:5

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that {were} in the ship into the sea, to lighten {it} of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

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