Jonah 4:11

New International Reader's Version

And shouldn’t I show concern for the great city of Nineveh? It has more than 120,000 people. They can’t tell right from wrong. Nineveh also has a lot of animals.”

Cross References

Genesis 9:10

I am making it also with every living creature that was with you in the ark. I am making my covenant with the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals. I am making it with all the creatures that came out of the ark with you. In fact, I am making it with every living thing on earth.

Psalm 104:14

He makes grass grow for the cattle and plants for people to take care of. That’s how they get food from the earth.

Psalm 36:6

Your holiness is as great as the height of the highest mountains. You are as honest as the oceans are deep. Lord, you keep people and animals safe.

Isaiah 1:18

“Come. Let us settle this matter,” says the Lord. “Even though your sins are bright red, they will be as white as snow. Even though they are deep red, they will be white like wool.

Isaiah 37:37

So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, took the army tents down. Then he left. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Isaiah 7:16

Even before then, the lands of the two kings you fear will be ruined.

Jonah 1:2

“Go to the great city of Nineveh. Preach against it. The sins of its people have come to my attention.”

Jonah 3:10

God saw what they did. He saw that they stopped doing what was evil. So he took pity on them. He didn’t destroy them as he had said he would.

Jonah 4:10

But the Lord said, “You have been concerned about this plant. But you did not take care of it. You did not make it grow. It grew up in one night and died the next.

Matthew 18:33

Shouldn’t you have had mercy on the other servant just as I had mercy on you?’

Deuteronomy 1:39

You said your little ones would be taken prisoner. But they will enter the land. They do not yet know right from wrong. But I will give them the land. They will take it as their own.