God created a giant fish to swallow Jonah after he was thrown the ship overboard. They did this because God had immediately stopped the storm after they got rid of Jonah. The sailors began to pray and offer sacrifices to God once they threw Jonah overboard. Jonah then explained to the sailors why he was running from God, and they eventually threw Jonah into the sea at his request to stop the storm. The sailors then cast lots to see who handled the storm and Jonah were the guilty one. The captain went down to the bottom of the ship and woke Jonah up and had him pray to his god to make the storm stop. The sailors who were on board the ship began to pray to their gods to stop the storm, but it didn’t work. Jonah was asleep at the bottom of the ship while the storm was raging against the vessel. While he was sailing away, God sent a huge storm against the ship to sink it to the bottom of the sea. He then boarded a ship to place called Tarshish which used to be located in modern day Lebanon. Jonah had run in the opposite direction of God because he wanted to get away from the Lord. The Israelite’s constantly had problems with the people of Nineveh and Jonah would have rather watched these people suffer for their sins than to warn them about turning away from their transgressions. Nineveh was an ancient city that was a part of the Assyrian empire. The people of Nineveh were wicked and God wanted them to repent, but Jonah didn’t want to deliver this message. God had called Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh so that he could send them a message of repentance. And he predicts that King Jeroboam II would take back lands that were previously lost to Israel. There is a book in the Bible that bears his name and he also appears in 2 Kings as a prophet from Gath-Hepher. Jonah was the son of Amittai, and he is a prophet who lived in Israel in the 8th century B.C., which is where he appears on the Bible Timeline Chart.
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