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The Book of Jonah is the fifth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It tells the story of the prophet Jonah, who flees from God's command but eventually proclaims judgment against Nineveh; when Nineveh repents, God relents from the disaster He had threatened.
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- Jonah (Prophet)People
Jonah was an Israelite prophet and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Jonah. He is known for fleeing from God's command, spending three days in the belly of a great fish, and then going to Nineveh to call its people to repentance.
- Jonah 4Bible
Jonah 4 is the final chapter of the Book of Jonah. When Jonah becomes angry that Nineveh has been spared, God teaches him through a gourd vine, and the book closes with God's question about why He should spare the great city.
- Jonah 3Bible
Jonah 3 is the chapter in which Jonah, having received God's second call, proclaims Nineveh's destruction; the king and the people fast and repent, and God withholds the calamity.
- Jonah 1Bible
Jonah 1 tells how Jonah, fleeing the LORD's command to go to Nineveh, boards a ship bound for Tarshish, is thrown into the sea during a storm, and is swallowed by a great fish.
- Jonah 2Bible
Jonah 2 is the chapter containing the prayer Jonah offered to the LORD from the belly of the great fish. Jonah thanks God for delivering him from the depths of the sea and promises to pay what he has vowed; at the end of the chapter, the fish vomits Jonah out upon dry land.
Verses in the King James Version 17, showing 6
- 2 Kings 14:25
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.
- Jonah 1:1
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
- Jonah 1:3
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.
- Jonah 1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
- Jonah 1:7
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.
- Jonah 1:15
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
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