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The Book of Jonah is a book in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanach. The book gives an account of the prophet Jonah and the well-known story in which God tells Jonah to prophesy to the people of Nineveh. Jonah attempts to run the other direction, is thrown from a ship in a storm, swallowed by a giant fish, and transported to Nineveh. |
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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 is not prophetical but narrative in its form; (2) others, denying the possibility of miracles altogether, hold that therefore it cannot be true history. |
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history. |
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Jonah and his story is referred to by our Lord (Matt. 12:39, 40; Luke 11:29), a fact to which the greatest weight must be attached. It is impossible to interpret this reference on any other theory. This one argument is of sufficient importance to settle the whole question. No theories devised for the purpose of getting rid of difficulties can stand against such a proof that the book is a veritable history. |
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Jonah and his story is referred to by Jesus (Matt. 12:39, 40; Luke 11:29). |
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There is every reason to believe that this book was written by |
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It is generally thought that the book was written by |
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century. The history of Jonah may well be regarded "as a part of that great onward movement which was before the Law and under the Law; which gained strength and volume as the fulness of the times drew near.", Perowne's Jonah. |
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century. |
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Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed |
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Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed |
The book gives an account of the prophet Jonah and the well-known story in which God tells Jonah to prophesy to the people of Nineveh. Jonah attempts to run the other direction, is thrown from a ship in a storm, swallowed by a giant fish, and transported to Nineveh.
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.
Jonah and his story is referred to by Jesus (Matt. 12:39, 40; Luke 11:29).
It is generally thought that the book was written by Jonah himself. It gives an account of (1) his divine commission to go to Nineveh, his disobedience, and the punishment following (1:1-17); (2) his prayer and miraculous deliverance (1:17-2:10); (3) the second commission given to him, and his prompt obedience in delivering the message from God, and its results in the repentance of the Ninevites, and God's long-sparing mercy toward them (ch. 3); (4) Jonah's displeasure at God's merciful decision, and the rebuke tendered to the impatient prophet (ch. 4). Nineveh was spared after Jonah's mission for more than a century.
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