Jonah
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of
the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to
Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it,
to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD....
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And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast
lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil [is] upon us.
So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah....
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So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the
city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the
shadow, till he might see what would become of the city....
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Jonah (Hebrew: יוֹנָה, Modern Yona Tiberian Yônā ; dove; Arabic:
يونس, Yūnus or يونان, Yūnān; Latin: Ionas) is the name given
in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the
northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the
eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for
being swallowed by a fish. The Bib...
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jo'-na (yonah, "dove"; 'Ionas):
(1) According to 2 Ki 14:25, Jonah, the son of Amittai, of
Gath-hepher, a prophet and servant of Yahweh, predicted the
restoration of the land of Israel to its ancient boundaries
through the efforts of Jeroboam II. The prophet lived and
labored either in the early part of the reign of Jeroboam
(790-750 BC), or d...
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-Also called JONAS
-A prophet of Israel
2Ki 14:25
-Sent by God to warn the city of Nineveh
Jon 1:1,2
-Disobedience and punishment of
Jon 1:3-17
-Repentance and deliverance of
Jon 2; Mt 12:40
-Brought Ninevites to repentance
Jon 3; Mt 12:41
-Displeased with God's mercy to Nineveh
-Reproved
Jon 1:4
-Is a sign
Mt 16:4; Lu 11:29,30...
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(dove), the fifth of the minor prophets, was the son of
Amittai, and a native of Gath-hepher. 2Ki 14:25 He
flourished in or before the reign of Jeroboam II., about
B.C. 820. Having already, as it seems, prophesied to Israel,
he was sent to Nineveh. The time was one of political
revival in Israel; but ere long the Assyrians were to be
employed...
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a dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of
Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient
boundaries
(2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. He exercised his
ministry
very early in the reign of Jeroboam II., and thus was
contemporary with Hosea and Amos; or possibly he
preceded them,
and consequently may have been the v...
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