Nineveh

this to happen. When the people of Israel won battles against their enemies, they became proud of their power. They forgot the special relationship that they had with God. It was at this time that the Lord sent Jonah to the city of Nineveh. God asked me to go to Nineveh to preach against their wickedness. I was scared to do that, so I ran away from the Lord and found a ship to sail to Tarshish. There were other sailors on board with me and God sent a massive storm and big waves to rise against the

sins. God makes His desires known, and in turn, His people obey and disobey these desires. More specifically, examples of this arise in the stories pertaining to Adam and Eve, Noah, Cain and Abel, and Jonah and the people of Nineveh. Noah as well as Jonah and the people of Nineveh show numerous examples of acting on God’s plans and desires in a positive way, while the other examples contrast this and provide instances where God’s desires are not followed. Although there are those who choose not to follow

The book of Jonah is about how he did not obey God’s commands, and the effects of the choices he made. Jonah asked for forgiveness and decided to carry out the command to warn Nineveh. Jesus forgave the people of Nineveh and decided not to destroy their city. By reading this, we learn that it is important to follow Jesus’s example by forgiving others instead of judging them. The author of the book might be Jonah, and someone else may have written it. It also says that Jonah did not write his

The Biblical Book of Jonah has helped me to analyze my calling. In the beginning of the text Jonah is called to Nineveh and must prophecy to the people there. Jonah understands what God wants him to do. But he gets on a boat and goes in the opposite direction toward a city that has nothing to do with God’s call. God said to go east and Jonah went west. Then Jonah’s situation turns sour. While aboard the ship headed to Tarshish there is a terrific storm. The storm is so fierce that the sailors

think of the story of Jonah? Most people will explain him as a prophet who got swallowed by a fish. But, there is also more to that story. The story of Jonah starts out with a man who worshiped God. Then, is called on by God to help the city of Nineveh but turns away. In the end, he does the right thing and saves a lot of people. Through this story, we are able to learn a great lesson about God and his relationship with Jonah along with Jonah’s remarkable story. Jonah, son of Amittai, lived in

since the time of David and Solomon. Assyrian was expanding rapidly as well, and they were only 500 miles away from the people of Israel. Jonah wrote to his proud and patriotic fellow-countrymen who were under taxation by the evil Assyrian empire. Nineveh was the capital of the great Assyrian empire sprawling to the north and east

in 2 Kings 14:25 that Jonah was a prophet (from this we infer that he must have been a strong Israelite and had probably rote memorized the Torah), contrasts with the sailors response to the experience. God command Jonah to go to the great city of Nineveh and “cry against it” because of their wickedness . Jonah responds by deciding to flee “unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord”, as stated twice by verse three. Jonah continued this trip by going “down into the side of the ship,” laid down, and

of unlikely people chosen by the Lord to fulfill His purposes. Jonah had no idea he would be fish bait on his journey to reach an ungodly group of people. Jonah, the most noted foreign missionary in the Old Testament, is commanded to go east to Nineveh but flees toward the westernmost possible point (Jonah 1:1-3), was consumed by a great fish during his disobedient flight (Jonah 1:17), and walked around looking like a bleached whale for three days preaching repentance to a city that he despised

which conveys this comic tale about a reluctant people.”1 “In the Book of Kings, (2 Kings 14-25)2 we learn that the historical Jonah prophesied to King Jeroboam II to expand the Northern Kingdom of Israel into lands formerly possessed by Assyria. Nineveh was the capital of Assyria which was an empire particularly feared and hated barbaric group. “It was Assyria that conquered and destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE (approximately

very clear. “The actual composition of the book is not datable except within the broadest boundaries (ca. 750b.c.-250b.c.) simply because there are no certain indicators in it of date (Stuart 432). However, it was obviously between the time when Nineveh was a strong power in the known world; and most likely between the time when Assyria had taken Israel into exile. However, it is most plausible that Jonah took place closer to the 750