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Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," [10] but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going ...
The Book of Jonah is one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and an individual book in the Christian Old Testament.The book tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but attempts to escape his divine mission.
The Prophet Jonah is opposite the fresco of the prophet Zachariah. [5] Behind the figure of Jonah, Michelangelo has painted a large fish (a tarpon), a reference to the fact that in the Book of Jonah, Jonah is swallowed by one. A close-up of the face of the central figure
Jonah, prophet during Kingdom of Israel Jonathan , son of King Saul and slain with him in battle, trusted friend of David Joshua , Othniel , Ehud , Shamgar , Deborah , Barak , Gideon , Abimelech , Tola , Jair , Jephthah , Ibzan , Elon , Abdon , Samson , and Eli , Samuel , the Judges who ruled after Moses and before the kings
Biblical figure Place name and location Image Notes Job: In Druzism: Chouf District, Lebanon (pictured). Yaqut al-Hamawi recorded that it was located in Al-Shaykh Saad, while another tradition locates it at Salalah, Oman: Jesse and Ruth: Tomb of Jesse and Ruth, Hebron, West Bank Mordecai and Esther: Tomb of Esther and Mordechai, Hamedan, Iran
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
Micaiah – Biblical prophet, disciple of Elijah; Jonah – Biblical and Quranic prophet; Amos – Hebrew prophet; Hosea – Biblical character; Amoz – Father of Isaiah; Isaiah – Israelite prophet; Micah – Prophet in Judaism; Joel – Abrahamic prophet, author of the Book of Joel; Zephaniah – Biblical figure; Nahum – Minor prophet in ...