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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 Jaffa (sometimes transliterated as Joppa or Joppe).
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 ...
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.
Jonah 1:1 - Jonah Flees From the LORD- Jonah 1:17 - Jonah Cast Into the Sea and Swallowed
- Jonah 2:8 - Jonah's Prayer
- Jonah 2:1 - Jonah's Prayer
- Jonah 2:2 - Jonah's Prayer
- Jonah 2:3 - Jonah's Prayer
- Jonah 4:1 - Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion
- Jonah 4:5 - Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion
- Jonah 4:9 - Jonah's Anger at the LORD's Compassion
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Jul 15, 2024 · Jonah (flourished 785 bce) was 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 ...
Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible. 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 ...
Jul 11, 2024 · 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 ...
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.
