What is Book of Jonah?
{{Books of the Old Testament}} The [[Old Testament]] '''book of Jonah''', contains four chapters, and forty-eight verses. The book tells the story of the [[Prophet]] '''Jonah''', who was called by [[God]] to go to the [[Evil|heathen]] [[city]] of Nineveh, which God would soon destroy if they did not [[Repentance|repent]]. Nineveh was the main city of the [[Assyria|Assyrians]] who were the enemies of Jonah's country of Israel. So instead, Jonah ran away from God and went in a ship towards the west. God sent a great storm and the ship was about to sink. God showed the sailors that Jonah was to blame, and although they didn't want to, they threw him out of the ship and the storm stopped. Jonah was swallowed by a [[Large|great]] [[fish]] (probably a [[whale]]). He repented of his sin of running away from God. Then he prayed for three days and nights. God made the great fish spit Jonah onto the dry land. Then he obeyed God and went to tell the people of their [[sin]]s to God. Jonah then went all through the city telling everyone that God was going to punish them. Their hearts were changed and they saw their [[evil]]doing. They [[Prayer|prayed]] for God to deliver them from the upcoming [[wikt:destruction|destruction]] to their city. God saw their change and had mercy on them, but Jonah still did not believe it. He went to wait upon a high up rock and see God's anger against the city. God was not pleased with that so he first made a plant grow, and then sent a [[small]] [[worm]] to bite down the small gourd plant, which was Jonah's only [[shade]] from the [[heat]] of the [[sun]]. Jonah was very [[angry]] and said it was better for him to [[Death|die]] than live. God, in turn, said that Jonah cared more about the little [[plant]] than all the [[people]] of Nineveh! == Other websites == *[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%201-4;&version=9; Book of Jonah (KJV)] *[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah%201-4;&version=31; Book of Jonah (NIV)] {{Book of Jonah}} {{Books of the Bible}} {{DEFA