Jonah
God raised up certain "prophets" who were His mouthpieces.
They would speak out against their sin and idolatry and would
continually warn of God's judgment. Some of the prophets spoke
out in the North and some in the South, but God was faithfully
warning them of certain catastrophe if they would not turn to
him....
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The Book of Jonah (Hebrew: Sefer Yonah) is a book in the
Hebrew Bible. It tells the story of a Hebrew prophet named
Jonah ben Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the
destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine
mission.[1] Set in the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 BCE), it
was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime
be...
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This little roll of four short chapters has given rise to
almost as much discussion and difference of opinion as the
first four chapters of Genesis. It would be presumptuous to
think that one could, in a brief article, speak the final
word on the questions in debate.
I. Contents of the Book.
The story is too well known to need retelling. Moreov...
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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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(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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This book professes to give an account of what actually took
place in the experience of the prophet. Some critics
have sought
to interpret the book as a parable or allegory, and
not as a
history. They have done so for various reasons. Thus
(1) some
reject it on the ground that the miraculous element
enters so
largely into it, and that it i...
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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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