Jonah 3:5
3:5 The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
Jonah 3:10
3:10 When God saw their actions – they turned
from their evil way of living!
– God relented concerning the judgment
he had threatened them with
and he did not destroy them.
Jonah 1:10
1:10 Hearing this,
the men became even more afraid
and said to him, “What have you done?” (The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape
from the
Lord, because he had previously told them.
)
Jonah 1:13
1:13 Instead, they tried to row
back to land,
but they were not able to do so
because the storm kept growing worse and worse.
Jonah 1:9
1:9 He said to them, “I am a Hebrew! And I worship
the
Lord,
the God of heaven,
who made the sea and the dry land.”
Jonah 1:12
1:12 He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea to make the sea quiet down,
because I know it’s my fault you are in this severe storm.”
Jonah 3:7-8
3:7 He issued a proclamation and said,
“In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.
3:8 Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly
to God, and everyone
must turn from their
evil way of living
and from the violence that they do.
Jonah 1:3
1:3 Instead, Jonah immediately
headed off to Tarshish
to escape
from the commission of the
Lord.
He traveled
to Joppa
and found a merchant ship heading
to Tarshish.
So he paid the fare
and went aboard
it to go with them
to Tarshish
far away from the
Lord.
Jonah 1:5
1:5 The sailors were so afraid that each cried out
to his own god
and they flung
the ship’s cargo
overboard
to make the ship lighter.
Jonah, meanwhile,
had gone down
into the hold
below deck,
had lain down, and was sound asleep.
Jonah 1:4
1:4 But
the
Lord hurled
a powerful
wind on the sea. Such a violent
tempest arose on the sea that
the ship threatened to break up!
Jonah 1:7
1:7 The sailors said to one another,
“Come on, let’s cast lots
to find out
whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us.
” So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.
Jonah 4:2
4:2 He prayed to the
Lord and said, “Oh,
Lord, this is just what I thought
would happen
when I was in my own country.
This is what I tried to prevent
by attempting to escape to Tarshish!
– because I knew
that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger
and abounding
in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.