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The Summary of the Book of Jonah Chapter by Chapter. Chapter 1 – Jonah Flees from God. In the opening chapter, God calls Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach against its wickedness. Instead of obeying, Jonah boards a ship to Tarshish in an attempt to flee from God.
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The word of the LORD came to Jonah: God spoke to Jonah in His own unique and powerful way and He told Jonah to do two things. First, go to Nineveh ; second, cry out against it – that is, rebuke them for their sin and call them to repentance.
Jonah flees to the margins of the map–even when he knows that his odds of escape are not good–because he also knows that God he who wants to send him to Nineveh is “gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity” (4:1-2) and he cannot stand the thought of God using him to extend ...
(Jonah 4:5-8) God prepares an object lesson for Jonah. So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.
David Guzik commentary on Jonah 4, where Jonah expresses his complaint about the repentance of Nineveh, and gets confronted by God about it.
1. The honour God put upon Jonah, in giving him a commission to go and prophesy against Nineveh. Jonah signifies a dove, a proper name for all God's prophets, all his people, who ought to be harmless as doves, and to mourn as doves for the sins and calamities of the land.
Commentary on Jonah 1:1-3. (Read Jonah 1:1-3) It is sad to think how much sin is committed in great cities. Their wickedness, as that of Nineveh, is a bold and open affront to God. Jonah must go at once to Nineveh, and there, on the spot, cry against the wickedness of it. Jonah would not go.
