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Jonah is a skinny, gormless, chinless wonder of a sailor, feared by other mariners because of his clumsiness. He has (accidentally) sunk every ship he has sailed on (as well as all other vessels surrounding, at times), and started a war between the nations of Gorgonzolia and Parafinalia, resulting in the utter destruction of the combined fleets of both countries (a possible reference to the ...
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 ...
Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a "great fish", in whose belly he spends three days and three nights. [20] While inside the great fish, Jonah prays to God in thanksgiving and commits to paying what he has vowed. [21] Jonah's prayer has been compared with some of the Psalms, [22] and with the Song of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1-10. [23]
Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Ishmael, the narrator of the novel, hears Mapple's sermon on the subject of Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale but did not turn against God.
The prophet Jonah appears in 2 Kings aka 4 Kings and is therefore thought to have been active around 786–746 BC. [15] A possible scenario which facilitated the acceptance of Jonah's preaching to the Ninevites is that the reign of Ashur-dan III saw a plague break out in 765 BC, revolt from 763-759 BC and another plague at the end of the revolt.
The year’s surprise sensation, Alison Espach’s improbably fun novel follows the adventures of a severely bummed out young woman who finds herself accidentally crashing a lavish wedding at a ...
So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and ...
Yunus (Arabic: يونس, Yūnus; Arabic synonym of "Jonas" or "Jonah"), [1] is the 10th chapter of the Quran with 109 verses . Yunus is named after the prophet Yunus ( Jonah ). According to tafsir chronology ( asbāb al-nuzūl ), it is believed to have been revealed before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his followers from ...