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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 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]
According to the Book of Jonah the Prophet, during his lifetime Jonah was commanded by God to travel to the city Nineveh to condemn their wickedness. [4] He decided to flee from the presence of the lord and he set sail for Tarshish, a huge storm arose. The sailors realized that it was no ordinary storm and that Jonah was to blame. [5]
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 ...
The term Tarshish also figures in the Book of Jonah, where Jonah, to evade God's mission that he preach in Nineveh, boards ship in Jaffa, and sails towards a city of that name. This led some to suggest that there too Carthage was his objective. Much modern research tends to the view, however, that the Tarshish here denotes the Iberian Tartessos.
Jonah laments the dead plant, and Khalil is disappointed that Jonah shows more compassion for a plant than the Ninevites. Khalil then tries to explain God is compassionate and merciful and that He wants to give everyone, both Israelites and non-Israelites, a second chance. Jonah refuses to accept this and states it would be better if he was dead.
Yunus ibn Matta (Arabic: يُونُس ٱبْن مَتّىٰ, romanized: Yūnus ibn Mattā) is a prophet of God in Islam corresponding to Jonah son of Amittai in the Hebrew Bible. [1] [2] Jonah is the only one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible to be named in the Quran. [3] The tenth chapter of the Quran, Yunus, is named after him. [4]
Alan Oppenheimer – Jonah (in "Jonah") Barry Bostwick – Joseph (in "Joseph and his Brothers") Bruce McGill – Charlotte Rae – Noah's wife (in "Noah's Ark") David Ackroyd – Angel (in "The Nativity"), Jesus Christ (in "The Miracles of Jesus") Dean Jones – King Ahasuerus (in "Queen Esther") Ed Asner – Joshua (in "Joshua and the Battle ...