...which thou hast not labored neither madest it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night ; and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein...right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?" In his providence, he often says the same to me. As I contemplate the ruin he has spread around...

...overthrown." They might have responded, ''What, this great city be destroyed! — a city that contains sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between...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...

...perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, 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 ?"a 52. THE LAST KINGS OP JUDAH. AFTER the division of the kingdom, there sat on " Jonah iv. 6— 11....

...represented as being very great ; it contained more than six score thousand persons that could " not discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle," Jonah iv. 11. This statement is generally understood to include young children, who are usually reckoned...

...Jonah 4: 11, that in Nineveh " there were more than six score thousand persons who could not discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle."* According to the common estimate this would give 600,000 for the entire population ; the same number...

...thou hast not laboured, neither modest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night : And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein...right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? 4th. chap. Jonah, 7—llth verses. THE joy of the prophet was not of long duration—his joy was...

...thou hast not laboured, neither modest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein...right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle 1 How inexpressibly vast beyond all our thoughts, how infinitely high above all our ways, is the love...

...following the same notation, we find the prophet Jonah sent to preach repentance to the Ninevites, in " that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand...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, hurnbling...

...proportion to the are* occupied, like that which belongs to the towns and cities of ourdty. " Six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand " — a proverbial expression for yonng children — were mentioned as among its inhabitants in the...

...Nineveh, " that great city," wherein were more than six score thousand persons that could not discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle, Jonah iv. 11. Such an arrow also was aimed against Hezekiah : " Set thine house in order : for thou shalt...