Jonah’s gourd
Ronald Hanko's exegetical study of Jonah 4:5-11 examines Jonah's self-righteous anger after God spares Nineveh, using the parable of the gourd to illustrate God's sovereign mercy and rebuke human pride. The article demonstrates how God's providential acts toward Jonah teach lessons about submission to divine will and proper Christian attitudes toward God's gracious purposes.
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. 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. But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. And it came pass, when the sun...
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