Category: Jonah

In this chapter we learn Jonah is angry that God spared the people of Nineveh – apparently he was hoping to see the city burned to the ground for these were his ‘enemies’ (Assyrians). “But God said to Jonah, ‘Do you do well to be angry for the plant?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I do…

Jonah ‘obediently’ prophesies to Nineveh, and they repent of their wicked ways. “So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, ‘Yet forty…

This chapter consists of a prayer Jonah uttered while in the belly of the fish. ” ‘I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the…

This chapter informs us that Jonah is called by God to prophesy in the city of Nineveh, but he tries to flee God’s presence by taking a ship in the opposite direction. As a consequence God send a terrible storm upon the ship. “Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god……