Book of Jonah

passage Jonah 4. In this paper we will start off at looking at the context of the passage and then we will do two different analysis on the passage. The two main questions that we will be trying to find out in this paper are: what is the significance of this historical account between the Lord and Jonah? And what does it mean? The two bible versions that I consulted for this paper…

Carter’s message was that God can use Jonah better broken that he can whole. I even thought this caught my attention I don’t quite understand why God uses pain to correct us or anoint us. T.D Jakes once said that “anointing comes the pressing of God. He compared it to the olive and how in order…

Jonah and Nehemiah are two prophets that can teach us Christians a lot of life lessons and also how to deal with things when adversity strikes. The story of Jonah is one of the more well-known stories throughout the Bible, probably because we can learn so much from it in what is such a little book of God’s Word. It starts out with God telling Jonah to go to Nineveh, a great city that was weak in its beliefs. Jonah, instead of trusting in the Lord, fled to Tarshish. To get to Tarshish, he first…

Jonah Submits to the Lord Chapter 3 Jonah Delivers God’s Message (3:1-4) The theme of repentance and deliverance will be carried along further by Jonah’s actions and deliverance. This will be the second calling that YHWH is commanding of Jonah to go to Nineveh to proclaim the message of God. (Vs. 3:1-3) The Lord is relying on Jonah to obey his word and Jonah leaves without delay. (vs.3) Jonah arrives in the city and he begins to preach, he utters very the only words of prophecy in the book,…

is impractical because the scriptures contain several different genres in a single book, let alone when all the scriptures combined. While technically a source criticism, it is also beneficial when working with biblical texts to ask when the…

In these modern times, skeptics consider the account of Jonah the son of Amit'tai as a fable or even a symbolic story. However, Jesus drew a comparison between Himself and Jonah confirming its historical accuracy. Shortly after the Flood, Nineveh was founded by Nimrod a warrior, (Genesis 10:11-12). It was the capital of the Assyrian empire and rose to power around 900 B.C. Nineveh, the oldest and most-populous city of the ancient Assyrian empire, is today's present day city of Mosul, Iraq. It…

Overview: God calls Jonah to preach to Nineveh, but Jonah refuses and runs away on a boat that he is later thrown over into the sea. Jonah was swallowed by a large fish and prayed for forgiveness, so God made the fish spit him out onto land. God once again sent Jonah to Nineveh where the people except the message and repent. Jonah is furious that they were saved and his prophecy of their distraction does not come true. Behind the Text: When Nineveh is mentioned in the book of Zephaniah, that…

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Pride A Bible Study Talk By: Nicholas Whittington The dictionary definition of pride is “a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction from one’s own achievements” and “having an excessively high opinion oneself or one’s importance. The Bible says pride is a sin but are there exceptions to that? In Proverbs 8:13, it says “to fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance”. To fear the Lord means to respect and obey him. To hate pride and arrogance means to give God all the glory.…

be very uncomfortable. In The book of Jonah, Jonah is faced with similar circumstances. Jonah prayed to God for a message to give to a city. God answered and told Jonah to go to Nineveh and tell the people to repent for all of their sins or their city would be destroyed by God. Nineveh was a very unsafe and dangerous city. The word that the bible used to describe nineveh was ra’ah which means wickedness. Jonah did not listen to God because he feared for his life. Jonah knew that in the lawless…