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5 days ago · Jonah or Jonas ( Hebrew: יוֹנָה Yōnā, lit. 'dove') [a] is a Jewish prophet in the Hebrew Bible hailing from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE.
Jun 20, 2024 · Tarshish, in contrast, was west of Gath-hepher. In fact, Tarshish stood more than 2,500 miles from Israel in the opposite direction of Nineveh. It was the most remote destination available to Jonah.
Jun 27, 2024 · Gath is famous as being the birthplace or residence of the giant Goliath (1 Samuel 17:4) who young David killed nearby. Joshua mentions Gath as one of the last remaining refuges of of Anakim in the land of Israel (Joshua 11:22).
5 days ago · He came from an insignificant village—Gath-hepher—near Cana, in Galilee. Prophets often had to deliver bad news, but Mr. Jonah got to prophesy good things, such as the restoring of Israel’s boundaries (2 Kings 14:25).
Jun 21, 2024 · “He restored the territory of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from Gath Hepher.”
Jun 19, 2024 · He is said to be the son of Amittai cf. Jonah 1:1 from the town of Gath-hepher in lower Galilee. Flavius Josephus reiterates these details in his Antiquities of the Jews (chapter 10, paragraph 2). The city of Nineveh was rediscovered after more than 2,500 years of obscurity.
Jun 24, 2024 · A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels ; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back.
