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Jonah Flees From the Lord. 1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish . He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port.
Jonah (Arabic: يُونُس, romanized: Yūnus) is the title of the tenth chapter of the Quran. Yūnus is traditionally viewed as highly important in Islam as a prophet who was faithful to God and delivered His messages. Jonah is the only one of Judaism's Twelve Minor Prophets to be named in the Quran.
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Read the biblical story of Jonah, who fled from God's command to preach to the wicked city of Nineveh and was swallowed by a fish. Learn about Jonah's prayer, God's mercy, and Jonah's anger.
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Jonah, (flourished 785 bce), one of the 12 Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. His narrative is part of a larger book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon, and stands alone as the Book of Jonah in Christian scripture. The account, which opposes the narrow Jewish nationalism of the time, was probably written in the 5th or 4th...
Jonah was a Jewish prophet and is identified as the son of Amittai. Given the historical information conveyed in the 2 Kings passage, he may have lived about 785 bce. At that time the Assyrian empire was one of the cruelest and most aggressive in Mesopotamia. The Assyrians had destroyed scores of cities and villages and forcibly relocated or enslav...
According to the biblical account, God orders Jonah to warn the citizens of Nineveh, a principal Assyrian city, to repent of their wickedness, but Jonah refuses to believe that these hated people deserve salvation. Rather than traveling east to the landlocked city of Nineveh, he instead runs west to the port of Joppa and boards a ship headed for Tarshish across the Mediterranean Sea. A storm threatens the ship, and the sailors draw lots to find out which man is the cause of their misfortune. The lot falls to Jonah, who tells the sailors that the storm is his fault and instructs them to throw him overboard. Once Jonah is thrown into the sea, the storm subsides, and the sailors worship the Hebrew God.
Alone in the sea, Jonah is swallowed by a huge fish and spends three days and nights in its belly, where he prays for deliverance. God commands the fish to spit the man out on land, and finally Jonah heads to Nineveh to comply with God’s original instructions to him. Upon hearing the prophet’s warning, the king and the people of Nineveh repent, and God does not punish them.
The book is unusual in that Jonah, an Israelite prophet, was called to preach repentance to those who were not Jewish, breaking out of the contemporary pattern of Hebrew nationalism. Other prophets of the time spoke specifically to the Israelite people, and it was a fairly radical idea that God might look with favour on other nations and peoples, especially the Assyrians. Thus Jonah was reluctant to follow the command to prophesy to the Ninevites. While Jonah would rather see his own life destroyed than extend grace to the Assyrians, the book portrays his God as forgiving, showing grace and mercy to even the vilest and cruelest of people.
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Learn about the book of Jonah, a prophet who ran from God's call to Nineveh and experienced God's mercy and power. Discover how Jonah's story points to Jesus' death and resurrection and challenges us to align our desires with God's.
The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament. The book tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but attempts to escape his divine mission.
The Book of Jonah. The story of Jonah has great theological import. It concerns a disobedient prophet who rejected his divine commission, was cast overboard in a storm and swallowed by a great fish, rescued in a marvelous manner, and returned to his starting point.
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