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JONAH OR JONAS @ son of Amittai a prophet- kjv@2Kings:14:25; kjv@Jonah:1:1; kjv@Jonah:2:1; kjv@Jonah:3:1; kjv@Jonah:4:5; kjv@Matthew:12:39; kjv@Matthew:16:4; kjv@Luke:11:29 -"The Reluctant Missionary" Sent to a foreign field- kjv@Jonah:1:2 Sought to flee from an unwelcome duty- kjv@Jonah:1:3 Overtaken in his flight- Jonah:1:4-17 Finds God's presence even in the depths of the sea- kjv@Psalms:139:10; Jonah:2:1~~10 Proceeds upon his mission of warning~~ Jonah:3:1~~3 Disappointed at the success of his own message~~ Jonah:3:5-10; target="32;3;5-10">Jonah:4:1 Reveals his bigotry in lamenting the repentance of the Ninevites- Jonah:4:1~~3 Taught a lesson of the breadth of the Divine Love~~ Jonah:4:4-11

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JONAH - J>@ - (dove), the fifth of the minor prophets, was the son of Amittai, and a native of Gath-hepher. ( kjv@2Kings: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 by God as a scourge upon them. The prophet shrank from a commission which he felt sure would result, kjv@Jonah:4:2) in the sparing of a hostile city. He attempted therefore to escape to Tarshish. The providence of God, however, watched over him, first in a storm, and then in his being swallowed by a large fish (a sea monster, probably the white shark) for the space of three days and three nights. On this subject see article WHALE After his deliverance, Jonah executed his commission; and the king, "believing him to be a minister form the supreme deity of the nation," and having heard of his miraculous deliverance, ordered a general fast, and averted the threatened judgment. But the prophet, not from personal but national feelings, grudged the mercy shown to a heathen nation. He was therefore taught by the significant lesson of the "gourd," whose growth and decay brought the truth at once home to him, that he was sent to testify by deed, as other prophets would afterward testify by word, the capacity of Gentiles for salvation, and the design of God to make them partakers of it. This was "the sign of the prophet Jonas." kjv@Luke:11:29-30) But the resurrection of Christ itself was also shadowed forth in the history of the prophet. kjv@Matthew:12:39-41 kjv@Matthew:16:4) The mission of Jonah was highly symbolical. The facts contained a concealed prophecy. The old tradition made the burial-place of Jonah to be Gath-hepher; the modern tradition places it at Nebi
- Yunus , opposite Mosul.

easton:

Jonah @ a dove, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher. He was a prophet of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries ( kjv@2Kings: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 very oldest of all the prophets whose writings we possess. His personal history is mainly to be gathered from the book which bears his name. It is chiefly interesting from the two-fold character in which he appears,

(1) as a missionary to heathen Nineveh, and

(2) as a type of the "Son of man."

Jonah, Book of @ 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 is not prophetical but narrative in its form;

(2) others, denying the possibility of miracles altogether, hold that therefore it cannot be true history. Jonah and his story is referred to by our Lord kjv@Matthew:12:39-40; kjv@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. There is every reason to believe that this 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. 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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JONAH @
- Also called JONAS
- A prophet of Israel kjv@2Kings:14:25
- Sent by God to warn the city of Nineveh kjv@Jonah:1:1-2
- Disobedience and punishment of kjv@Jonah:1:3-17
- Repentance and deliverance of kjv@Jonah:2; Matthew:12:40
- Brought Ninevites to repentance kjv@Jonah:3; Matthew:12:41
- Displeased with God's mercy to Nineveh
- Reproved kjv@Jonah:1:4
- Is a sign kjv@Matthew:16:4; kjv@Luke:11:29-30

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hitchcock:

kjv@STRING:Jonah <HITCHCOCK>@ or Jonas, a dove; he that oppresses; destroyer - HITCHCOCK-J

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H3124 <STRHEB>@ יונה yônâh yo-naw' The same as H3123; {Jonah} an Israelite: - Jonah.

G2495 <STRGRK>@ Ἰωνᾶς Iōnas ee-o-nas' Of Hebrew origin [H3124]; Jonas (that is Jonah) the name of two Israelites: - Jonas.

G920 <STRGRK>@ Βαριωνᾶς Bariōnas bar-ee-oo-nas' Of Chaldee origin [H1247] and [H3124]; son of Jonas (or Jonah); Bar-jonas an Israelite: - Bar-jona.