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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 Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.It is attributed to the prophet Nahum.The historical setting of Nahum as a prophet was 663 BCE to 612 BCE, while the historical setting that produced the book of Nahum is debated, with proposed timeframes ranging from shortly after the fall of Thebes in 663 BCE to the Maccabean period around 175-165 BCE. [1]
prophecy of Jonah [1] during the time of Babylonian captivity, though dating of the book ranges from the 6th to the late 3rd century BC. c. 796 BC–c. 768 BC [citation needed] King Amaziah of Judah. prophecy of Amos, Hosea. c. 767 BC–c. 754 BC [citation needed] King Uzziah of Judah c. 740 BC–c. 700 BC [citation needed] prophecy of Isaiah ...
Book of Jonah: From Persian or Hellenistic period, no later than 2nd century BCE [41] Book of Micah: c. 750–700 BCE [69] Book of Nahum: an "oracle concerning Nineveh", the Assyrian city destroyed in 612 BCE [70] Book of Habakkuk: possibly shortly before the battle of Carchemish, 605 BCE [22] Book of Zephaniah: reign of Josiah [21]
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 ...
In the Christian Old Testament, the collection appears as twelve individual books, one for each of the prophets: the Book of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Their order, and position in the Old Testament, varies slightly between the Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox ...
The Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures and is the textual source for the Christian Old Testament.In addition to religious instruction, the collection chronicles a series of events that explain the origins and travels of the Hebrew peoples in the ancient Near East.
The Book of Nahum is dedicated to the Fall of Nineveh, which happened in or around 612 BCE. The story was supposedly written down after "the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite". [ 117 ] Chapter 1 narrates in the first and third person how the Israelite deity Yahweh tells the Assyrians that he will punish them by destroying their capital city of ...