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	Jonah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Prophet Jonah, as depicted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel
		Jonah (יוֹנָה "Dove", Standard Hebrew Yona, Latin Ionas, Tiberian Hebrew, and Arabic يونس Yunus or Yunis in Islamic Qura'anic terms) was a person in the Biblical Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, the son of Amittai ("True"), from the Galilean village of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth.
		Structurally, Cassandra and Jonah are exact opposites: A woman whose predictions are true but are not believed, and a man whose prophecies are believed and therefore do not come to pass.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonah (872 words)

	Book of Jonah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The story of Jonah is set against the historical background of Ancient Israel in the eighth-7th centuries BCE and the religious and social issues of the late sixth to fourth centuries BCE.
		The Jonah mentioned in II Kings 14:25 lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 BCE) and was from the city of Gath-hepher.
		Jonah, whose name literally means "dove," is introduced to the reader in the very first verse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Jonah (2414 words)

	Jonah
		Aside from the information given in the book of Jonah, the only fact known about him is that at some time during the reign of Jeroboam, or earlier, he predicted the restoration of the northern border of Israel (v 25).
		Although Jonah is cast overboard, his life is spared by "a great fish" (v 17), in whose belly he spends the next "three days and three nights"—one 24-hour period, together with unspecified portions of the day preceding and the day following.
		Jonah’s prayer of repentance is honoured, and the fish deposits him "upon the dry land" (ch 2:1, 10).
	www.nisbett.com /people/bp-jonah.htm (419 words)

	The Grace Institute: The Prophets: Jonah
		Jonah is to proclaim to Nineveh that their wickedness had become known to God and that they faced His judgment if they did not repent.
		Jonah is not praying to be saved from the belly of the fish, but is thanking God for having already saved him [9].
		Jonah had forgotten that because he disobeyed the Lord he faced the wrath of God and deserved to drown in the depths of the sea.
	www.gcfweb.org /institute/prophet/jonah.html (3529 words)

	Jonah
		Jonah's voice is the only prophetic voice recorded between Elisha and the prophecies of Amos and Hosea; both of these prophets speak of coming judgment against God's sinful people: Amos prophesies destruction, and Hosea speaks of judgment.
		The irony revealed in Jonah and Christ among his own is that the Ninevites repented and the Kingdom of God was received by the Gentiles, the Israelites continuing a long tradition of not repenting in spite of prophetic warnings.
		Jonah uses a compound name for God in 4.6: 6: And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief.
	crain.english.missouriwestern.edu /jonah (2863 words)

	bible.org: Jonah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jonah is different than the other prophets because it is not full of prophecies by the prophet, it is instead, about the life of the prophet.
		Jonah is insensitive, but the heathens are aware that something out of the ordinary is going on and they are praying to their gods.
		Jonah was forgiven and delivered from the fish, but he did not see it that way.
	www.bible.org /page.asp?page_id=972 (2277 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jonah
		For as the Jonah was in the whale's belly three days and three nights: so shall the Son of man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
		Cyril admits that in all this Jonah failed and is not a type of Christ, but does not admit that these failures of Jonah prove the story of his doings to have been a mere fiction.
		Jewish tradition assumed that the Prophet Jonah was the author of the book bearing his name, and the same has been generally maintained by the Christian writers who defend the historical character of the narrative.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08497b.htm (1412 words)

	JONAH in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		(1) According to 2 Ki 14:25, Jonah, the son of Amittai, of Gath-hepher, a prophet and servant of Yahweh, predicted the restoration of the land of Israel to its ancient boundaries through the efforts of Jeroboam II.
		Jonah was grieved that the oppressing city should be spared, and waited in the vicinity to see what would be the final outcome.
		He speaks of Jonah's experience in the belly of the fish as parallel with His own approaching entombment for three days, and cites the repentance of the Ninevites as a rebuke to the unbelieving men of his own generation.
	www.bible-history.com /isbe/J/JONAH (461 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Book of Jonah
		The Prophet Jonah, as depicted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel Jonah (×™×•Ö¹× Ö¸×” Dove, Standard Hebrew Yona, Latin Ionas, Tiberian Hebrew YÃ´nÄh) was a person in the Biblical Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, the son of Amittai, from the Galilean village of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth.
		The Jonah mentioned in 2 Kings lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 BCE), and although the book does not represent itself as Jonah's own work, it has traditionally been ascribed to the 8th century.
		Popular understanding of the story of Jonah holds that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, and as a result the story has been ridiculed because this is generally considered to be impossible.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Book-of-Jonah (5788 words)

	Jonah
		This repetition implies that Jonah's flight from God was not merely from one place of the earth to another, but a descent into death and the underworld.
		Moreover, "Jonah's 'Psalm' differs significantly from others in the Psalter by maintaining the narrative form in the way it organizes the terminology of the 'underworld,' so that Jonah's descent is presented as a geographical sequence" (ABD, vol.
		The descent of Jonah in chapter 2 is a mirror image of the ascent of the Ninevites in chapter 3.
	www.geocities.com /j_owens05/ot/jonah/index.html (1579 words)

	Jonah
		Jonah takes to the high sea in flight from God, there is a storm, Jonah is thrown overboard.
		Jonah does everything he can to manipulate God into doing what he wants; and what he wants is to see the wrath of God played out against Israel’s enemies.
		For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
	www.presbyblog.com /articles/westpres/minorprophets/jonah.html (1183 words)

	E. Jonah
		The sailors determined that Jonah was the cause of the storm.
		Jonah should have been happy that all Nineveh's inhabitants had not been destroyed; instead he was disappointed.
		It is a satire with snide commentary on prophetic calling, using Jonah as a caricature to portray the reluctance of professional prophets to follow the leading of God.
	www.hope.edu /bandstra/RTOT/CH13/CH13_3E.HTM (976 words)

	Biblical people: Jonah
		Jonah, the son of Amittai, was born in Israel.
		Jonah's time inside the fish is used as an example of Jesus' burial in Matthew 12:38-41.
		Jonah was unable to love the Assyrians properly, but God desired nothing for them but their salvation, and so He sent a prophet to preach repentance.
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p32.htm (280 words)

	Jonah
		The name Jonah (Hebrew: Yonah) means "dove." He was the son of Amittai, of the tribe of Zebulun (Joshua 19:13), and from the city of Gath-hepher which is in the region of Galilee.
		It is believed by some of the Jewish Rabbins that Jonah is to be identified with the dead son of a widow from Zarephath who was raised to life by Elijah (I Kings 17), however there is no basis at all for such an assumption.
		Jonah foretold of the wide extent of this king's conquests and the expansion of Israel's territory under his leadership.
	www.zianet.com /maxey/Proph8.htm (1950 words)

	Jonah, Chapter 1 (King James Bible) - ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible
		3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
		But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
		And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
	www.christiananswers.net /bible/jonah1.html (525 words)

	Jonah, the Book of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Jonah was a narrow-minded patriot, who feared that Assyria would one day swallow up his own little nation; and so he wished to do nothing that might lead to the preservation of wicked Nineveh.
		Jonah was willing to prophesy to Israel; he at first flatly refused to become a foreign missionary.
		As Jonah was three days and three nights in the body of the fish, so should the Son of Man be three days in the heart of the earth.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T5117 (2122 words)

	IVP - Quiet Time Bible Study
		Jonah prophesied in the eighth century B.C., during or shortly before the reign of Jeroboam II (793-753 B.C.).
		First, few people questioned the historicity of Jonah until the nineteenth century, when liberal scholars launched an attack not only on this book but on every book in the Bible.
		Second, Jesus himself viewed the story of Jonah as history (Mt 12:38-41; Lk 11:29-30, 32), comparing it to the greater miracle of his resurrection.
	www.ivpress.com /bible/jonah (357 words)

	Jonah
		But, since the core truth of Jonah is the core truth of the good news of Jesus, understanding that distinguishes the message of Jesus from the Pharisees and even from John the Baptist, maybe it is more of a Christmas sermon than you think.
		The possibility that Jonah was actually swallowed by a fish and lived is under the heading of, "since God is all powerful God could do anything." The sad part of this kind of distraction is the idea that the truth would somehow be more powerful if it had happened as an historical fact.
		Jonah was a rebellious jerk who resisted God at every turn of the story and may never have gotten the point.
	www.seekerschurch.org /sermons/19980104.htm (3014 words)

	Notes on Jonah
		The Argument - When Jonah had long prophesied in Israel and had little profited, God gave him specific charge to go and denounce his judgments against Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrians, because he had appointed that those who were of the heathen, should convert by the mighty power of his word.
		But Jonah was gone down {g} into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
		And Jonah was in the {m} belly of the fish three days and three nights.
	www.reformed.org /documents/geneva/jonah.html (1855 words)

	Jonah
		Jonah, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
		Study on Jonah by Hampton Keathley, IV at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
		"Jonah and the Whale," Ed and Zach Deforest, dramatix.
	www.textweek.com /prophets/jonah.htm (499 words)

	Outline of Jonah the Prophet
		Jonah was neglectful of his duties to God.
		Jonah had to face the reality of the truth.
		Jonah was displeased over the destruction of the gourd because it was valuable to him.
	www.christianlibrary.org /authors/Charles_Burke/outlines/jonah-out.htm (73 words)

	CD Baby: JONAH: Safe Distance EP
		Portland, OR band Jonah's latest release the Safe Distance EP: Returning to producer Steve Sundholm, this five song EP builds on and transcends the sonic expansiveness of 2001's full length, Save the Swimmer.
		Having just returned from their first showcase for major labels in LA, Jonah is looking to the future with a smile, because the best is yet to come.
		all of jonah's albums are too short, but especially this one w/ only 5 songs.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/jonah2 (557 words)

	Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Jonah" does have its fair share of songs, but I felt that there were too many long gaps in between some of the musical numbers.
		Get rid of Jonah's whining and add in a few more songs and this movie would have been perfect for all ages.
		As it stands however, "Jonah" teaches a strong lesson to children in an enjoyable way.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0298388 (440 words)

	Lesson: Jonah
		Jonah was angry that God had forgiven Ninevah after they repented.
		It was so hot Jonah wished he were dead instead of in such anguish.
		God asked Jonah, "Is it right for you you to be angry about the vine?" Jonah said, "yes!" God answered, "You had pity on the vine, which you didn't grow or help, which came up in one night and died in one night.
	www.ebibleteacher.com /children/lessons/OT/jonah.htm (405 words)

	Guide to the Scriptures: Jonah
		An Old Testament prophet who was called by the Lord to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh (Jonah 1: 1-2).
		The major idea of the book of Jonah is that Jehovah reigns everywhere and does not confine his love to a single nation or people.
		Jesus taught that Jonah’s being swallowed by the fish served as a foreshadowing of Jesus’ own death and resurrection (Matt.
	scriptures.lds.org /gsj/jonah (188 words)

	JONAH, NRSV HEBREW BIBLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jonah himself is never called a prophet in the text.
		The two parts of the story, chs 1-2 and 3-4, are united by their central character (Jonah), a similar plot (the ironical conversion of foreigners to faith in the Lord), and an identical theme (the breadth of God's saving love).
		Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.
	www.anova.org /sev/htm/hb/32_jonah.htm (1375 words)

	The Corner on National Review Online
		If Jonah Goldberg had asserted that he could fly to Mars in his pyjamas and come back in a single day, it would not have been a more fantastic allegation than the one he made about Iraq being a danger to the United States because of the nuclear issue.
		Jonah, The “best” part of that article you linked is: “[the plaintiff] said the families' apologies rang false and weren't delivered in person." Add that to your “well, duh” column.
		Jonah, Rich, and all others struggling with feeling old, being called “sir,” etc. — there is a sure-fire way to drink from the Fountain of Youth: Volunteer at the local Bingo hall.
	www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/05_01_30_corner-archive.asp (10631 words)

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