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.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord God prepared a gourd,.... So the Septuagint render the word; but some say that a worm will not touch that; Jerom renders it an ivy; but neither the gourd nor that rise upwards without…
Barnes' Notes
And the Lord God prepared a gourd - , (a palm-christ, English margin, rightly.) . “God again commanded the gourd, as he did the whale, willing only that this should be. Forthwith it springs up…
Adam Clarke
And the Lord God prepared a gourd - I believe this should be rendered in the preterpluperfect tense. The Lord Had prepared this plant, קיקיון kikayon. It had in the course of God's providence been…
Cambridge Bible
prepared Rather, appointed. And so in Jon 4:7-8. See Jon 1:17, note.
a gourd This is the only place in the Old Testament in which the Hebrew word here translated gourdoccurs. It is quite a different…
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