Jonah
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The prophet named at 2 Kings 14:25: “He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the LORD, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.” There the Korean Revised Version names Jeroboam (여로보암이) where WEB says “He”, and reads 가드헤벨 아밋대의 아들 선지자 요나, naming the town Gath Hepher before Amittai. Jonah 1:1–3 say that the LORD’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it”, but that Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; 1:17 says, “The LORD prepared a huge fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights”; and 2:1–10 say that Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly, and that the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. 3:1–4 say that the LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, and that he went to Nineveh and cried out, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”; and 4:1–11 say that it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was angry and prayed to the LORD, that the LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah and God prepared a worm that chewed on the vine, and that the LORD said, “Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?” Matthew 12:39–41 names Jonah as the prophet concerning the sign; he is not present in the scene.
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- 2KI 14:23–27, engwebp
23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria for forty-one years.
24He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight. He didn’t depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the LORD, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
26For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter for all, slave and free; and there was no helper for Israel.
27The LORD didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
- JON 1:1–2, engwebp
1Now the LORD’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
- JON 1:3, engwebp
3But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
- JON 1:4–10, engwebp
4But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
5Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
6So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
7They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
8Then they asked him, “Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?”
9He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”
10Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
- JON 1:11–16, engwebp
11Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?” For the sea grew more and more stormy.
12He said to them, “Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you.”
13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.
14Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, “We beg you, LORD, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, LORD, have done as it pleased you.”
15So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.
- JON 1:17, engwebp
17The LORD prepared a huge fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
- JON 2:1–9, engwebp
1Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
2He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
5The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever; yet you have brought my life up from the pit, LORD my God.
7“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
8Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.
9But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to the LORD.”
- JON 2:10, engwebp
10Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
- JON 3:1–2, engwebp
1The LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
- JON 3:3–4, engwebp
3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
- JON 4:1–4, engwebp
1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
3Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
- JON 4:5–8, engwebp
5Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
6The LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
7But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- JON 4:9–11, engwebp
9God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
10The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
- LUK 11:29–36, engwebp
29When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
30For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.
31The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
32The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
33“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
34The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
35Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
36If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”
- MAT 12:38–45, engwebp
38Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
39But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
42The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.
43“When an unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he passes through waterless places seeking rest, and doesn’t find it.
44Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came;’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.
45Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
- MAT 16:1–12, engwebp
1The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
2But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’
3In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!
4An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them and departed.
5The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.
6Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
7They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”
8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, because you have brought no bread?
9Don’t you yet perceive or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up,
10or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
11How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
12Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
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Amittai — Father of — Jonah
Evidence: 2 Kings 14:23–27, Jonah 1:1–2
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Took part in (12) — The LORD’s word that came to Jonah the son of Amittai: go to Nineveh and preach against it, Jonah goes down to Joppa to flee to Tarshish, and boards a ship, The LORD sends out a great wind on the sea, and the lot falls on Jonah, Jonah is thrown into the sea; the sea ceases its raging, and the men fear the LORD exceedingly, A huge fish swallows up Jonah, and Jonah is in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, Jonah’s prayer to the LORD out of the fish’s belly, Jonah is vomited out on the dry land, The LORD’s word that came to Jonah the second time: go to Nineveh and preach to it, Jonah goes to Nineveh and cries that in forty days it will be overthrown, Jonah is angry and prays to the LORD, and the LORD asks him whether it is right for him to be angry, Jonah sits in a booth east of the city, and God prepares a vine, a worm and a sultry east wind, God’s question to Jonah about the vine and about Nineveh
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He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the LORD, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
Now the LORD’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.
They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
The LORD prepared a huge fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
Then the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
The LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying,
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
The LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them and departed.
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Jonah (person-jonah) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/person/jonah Current wording: The prophet named at 2 Kings 14:25: “He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the LORD, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.” There the Korean Revised Version names Jeroboam (여로보암이) where WEB says “He”, and reads 가드헤벨 아밋대의 아들 선지자 요나, naming the town Gath Hepher before Amittai. Jonah 1:1–3 say that the LORD’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it”, but that Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; 1:17 says, “The LORD prepared a huge fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights”; and 2:1–10 say that Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly, and that the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. 3:1–4 say that the LORD’s word came to Jonah the second time, and that he went to Nineveh and cried out, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”; and 4:1–11 say that it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was angry and prayed to the LORD, that the LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah and God prepared a worm that chewed on the vine, and that the LORD said, “Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?” Matthew 12:39–41 names Jonah as the prophet concerning the sign; he is not present in the scene. Cited evidence: 2KI 14:23–27, engwebp / JON 1:1–2, engwebp / JON 1:3, engwebp / JON 1:4–10, engwebp / JON 1:11–16, engwebp / JON 1:17, engwebp / JON 2:1–9, engwebp / JON 2:10, engwebp (and 8 more of 16) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.