And should not I spare Nineveh, 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?
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Gill's Exposition
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city?.... See Jon 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…
Barnes' Notes
Should I not spare? - literally “have pity” and so “spare.” God waives for the time the fact of the repentance of Nineveh, and speaks of those on whom man must have pity, those who never had any share…
Adam Clarke
And should not I spare Nineveh - In Jon 4:10 it is said, thou hast had pity on the gourd, אתה חסת attah Chasta; and here the Lord uses the same word, ואני לא אחוס veani lo Achus, "And shall not I have…
Cambridge Bible
that cannot discern &c. The idea that the whole population of Nineveh is thus described, the reference being to their moral condition of heathen ignorance and darkness, has nothing to recommend it. On…
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