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Jonah was a prophet and a servant: Christ Messiah and Lord. Jonah remained alive in the fish and came forth alive: Christ rose from death, and restored to life, came forth. Jonah preached unwillingly: Christ willingly. Jonah threatened the destruction of Nineveh: Christ promised the kingdom of Heaven. Jonah did no miracles: Christ did many.
In the quote below, from the Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917, the English word 'gourd' occurs where the Hebrew has kikayon. 6 And the L ORD 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 evil.
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 ...
"An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." 1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered them, "When it is evening, you say, «It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.» 3 And in the morning,
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.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The New International Version translates the passage as:
The phrase in Jonah 3:1, "and the word of God came unto Jonah the second time," is interpreted by Rabbi Akiva, however, to imply that God spoke only twice to him; therefore the "word of God" to him in 2 Kings 14:25 has no reference to a prophecy which Jonah delivered in the days of Jeroboam II, but must be taken in the sense that as at Nineveh ...
On 18 January 2010, ABC News reported Trijicon was placing references to verses in the Bible in the serial numbers of sights sold to the United States Armed Forces. [1] The "book chapter:verse" cites were appended to the model designation, and the majority of the cited verses are associated with light in darkness, referencing Trijicon's specialization in illuminated optics and night sights.