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Jonah 1:3 and 4:2 mention Tarshish as a distant place: "But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Jaffa and found a ship going to Tarshish." Jonah 's fleeing to Tarshish may need to be taken as "a place very far away" rather than a precise geographical term.
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]
Jonah gladly repents, and after spending three days and nights in the belly of the whale, he and Khalil are spat up onto the shore, where they ride Jonah's camel, Reginald, to Nineveh. After Jonah is denied entrance to the city, the Pirates appear, explaining they won the Mr. Twisty's Twisted Cheese Curls sweepstakes which grants them free ...
Superbook whisks Joy, Chris, and Gizmo to a boat amidst the great storm on the Mediterranean Sea, sailing for Tarshish, where they meet the runaway Jonah. Following the casting of lots, the ship's captain and the crewmen identify Jonah as the cause of the storm, throwing Jonah and the trio overboard.
The work is loosely based on the biblical allegory of Jonah and the Whale, although Tavener admitted that "The 'fantasy' grew and perhaps at times nearly 'swallowed' the biblical text: so the swallowing of Jonah became almost 'literal' in the biblical sense."
"Jonah" is a song by English pop band Breathe, released in May 1987 as the band's debut American single, and third in the United Kingdom following "In All Honesty". The song was written by band members David Glasper and Marcus Lillington.
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