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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 ...
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]
A lifelong Christian, Vallotton set out to simplify the Gospel message with the use of illustration. Aside from the Good News Bible, her works include From the Apple to the Moon, (1970), [4] Who Are You Jesus (1973), The Man who said No: Story of Jonah (1977) and The Mighty One and Sam, (1982).
God commanded the whale to vomit Jonah. [9] The story inspired countless paintings about Jonah and the whale. [10] Notable versions of Jonah and the whale were completed by famous artists from all over the world namely Pieter Lastman, Jacopo Tintoretto, and Michelangelo. Jan Sadeler I was a Flemish Renaissance engraver. His career began in ...
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 prays, causing the fish to spit him and the trio onto a beach. Journeying and arriving at Nineveh, Jonah warns its people about God's judgment as he witnesses their wickedness. Learning the repentance of Nineveh through its King's decree to pray and fast by wearing sackcloth and sitting in ashes, Jonah is upset with God, who forgives Nineveh.
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 ...
The Bar Kokhba revolt [b] (Hebrew: מֶרֶד בַּר כּוֹכְבָא, romanized: Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ ) was a large-scale armed rebellion initiated by the Jews of Judaea, led by Simon bar Kokhba, against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. [9] Lasting until 135 or early 136, it was the third and final escalation of the Jewish–Roman wars ...