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Yahweh told Jonah to get up and go to Nineveh and speak out against it.
Jonah got up to run away to Tarshish from before the face of Yahweh.
Yahweh sent a great wind and a great storm on the sea so that the ship was near to being broken up.
The sailors became very afraid and each cried out to his own god.
The sailors cast lots to determine the cause of the evil and the lot indicated Jonah.
The result was that the lot indicated that Jonah was the cause of the evil they were experiencing.
The sailors knew that Jonah was running away from before the face of Yahweh because Jonah told them.
Jonah told the men to lift him up and throw him into the sea.
The sailors asked Yahweh to not let them perish on account of the life of Jonah and to not hold them guilty for Jonah’s death.
When the sailors threw Jonah into the sea, the sea stopped raging.
Yahweh appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the abdomen of the fish three days and three nights.
Jonah cried out to Yahweh in prayer because he was distressed.
Jonah hoped that he might be able to look toward Yahweh’s holy temple again.
Yahweh brought Jonah’s life up from the pit.
Jonah said those who give attention to empty vanities forsake their covenant faithfulness.
Jonah said he would sacrifice to Yahweh with a voice of thanksgiving and fulfill what he had vowed.
Jonah said that salvation belongs to Yahweh.
Yahweh spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
Yahweh commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and speak Yahweh’s message.
Jonah obeyed Yahweh and went to Nineveh.
Jonah said that in 40 days Nineveh would be overthrown.
The Ninevites believed God, fasted, and put on sackcloth. The king of Nineveh made a decree which said that no person or animal should eat or drink water and that each person and animal must be covered with sackcloth and that each person should cry out to God and stop doing evil deeds including violent acts.
The king of Nineveh hoped that God would turn back from his anger and have compassion on them so that the people of Nineveh would not perish.
God saw their deeds, that they turned away from their evil ways. And God relented in regard to the evil that he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it.
Jonah was angry because it seemed like a great evil to Jonah that Yahweh had mercy on the Ninevites and did not punish them.
Jonah said that he had tried to flee to Tarshish because he knew that Yahweh was a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness, and one who relents from evil.
Jonah asked Yahweh to take his life.
Yahweh asked Jonah if it was right for Jonah to be angry.
Jonah wanted to see what would happen to the city of Nineveh.
Yahweh caused a plant to grow up over Jonah to be a shade for his head.
God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day; and it attacked the plant, and it withered.
Yahweh asked Jonah if it was right for him to be angry about the plant.
Jonah felt compassion for the plant that had withered and died.
Yahweh felt compassion for the people and animals in Nineveh.