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Jonah 1. New International Version. 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 ...
Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going to ...
Jonah 1. Jonah Flees from the LORD. ( Nahum 1:1–15) 1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”. 3 Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.
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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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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. Now he obeys and goes to Nineveh, the capital of Israel’s ancient enemy.
Book of Jonah, the fifth of 12 Old Testament books that bear the names of the Minor Prophets, embraced in a single book, The Twelve, in the Hebrew Bible. Unlike other Old Testament prophetic books, Jonah is not a collection of the prophet’s oracles but primarily a narrative about the man. Jonah is portrayed as a recalcitrant prophet who flees ...
Learn about the prophet Jonah, his message to Nineveh, and the meaning of his story. Read the book of Jonah online in NIV version, with summary, outline, and interpretation.
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