The_Book_Of_Jonah

The Book Of Jonah Jonah, book of the Old Testament, one of 12 brief prophetic books known, chiefly because of their brevity, as the Minor Prophets. The book relates a number of incidents in the life of an 8th-century BC Hebrew prophet named Jonah. In the first incident, Jonah is commanded by God to “go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me” (1:2). Jonah, however, seeks to flee by ship from “the presence of the Lord” (1:3, 10). A tempest arises; the frightened, reluctant mariners cast Jonah overboard (on Jonah's request), and he is swallowed by “a great fish” (1:17). In consequent incidents, Jonah prays from the belly of the fish (2:1-9), is subsequently “vomited out ... upon the dry land” (2:10), and again is commanded to “go to Nineveh ... and proclaim to it the message that I tell you” (3:2). Jonah preaches (3:3, 4), the people repent (3:5-9), and God, seeing their works, spares them (3:10). In the final incident, God reproves Jonah for being “displeased ... exceedingly” (4:1) after he spares “more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left” (4:11). Many modern jonah, book, historical, bc, scholars, parable, nineveh, jonah's, god, fish, work, word, story, spares, prophet, proclaim, postexilic, matthew, known, jews, jesus, incidents, incident, hebrew, hand, great, god's, go, evidence, entombment, consequent, commentators, commanded, books, biblical