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   Why did Jonah not go to Nineveh?

   • Or are you jealous because I am generous?’ (Matthew 20.15). Jonah doesn't go to Nineveh because he seems to have believed more in God's justice than in his grace. The Bible, then, has several Jonahs – icons of the faith who resisted and argued with God and ended up closer to him than before.

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   Did Jonah give a hope to Nineveh?

   • Yet Jonah, saved from the jaws of death himself on repentance, was the fittest to give a hope to Nineveh, doomed though it was, of a merciful respite on its repentance. The patience and pity of God stand in striking contrast with the selfishness and hard-heartedness of man.

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   Why did Jonah go to Tarshish?

   • 1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port.

   Why did Jonah run away from God to Tarshish in Chapter 1?

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   Where did Jonah go in the Bible?

   • In his flight, Jonah left his home of Gath-hepher, near Nazareth in Israel (2 Kings 14:25), and traveled to Joppa (Jonah 1:3), a coastal city. There he boarded a ship bound for Tarshish, a city near Gibraltar in the southern part of Spain. The contrast between Nineveh and Tarshish was vast.

   Why did Jonah try to go to Tarshish instead of Nineveh?

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   Why did Jonah sin?

   • As it turns out, Jonah’s sin was less to do with disobedience than his lack of compassion. God commissions Jonah to warn the depraved citizens of Nineveh of impending judgement and to urge them to turn from their wicked ways. Jonah faces a double dilemma: why help non-Jews? And why would a just God not punish them anyway?

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   How did Jonah escape from God?

   • Jonah’s ill-advised attempt to escape from God was doomed to fail. He soon realized God was with him everywhere he went. Even in the stomach of the great fish, God knew where Jonah was and could hear his prayer (Jonah 2:2). We are not to run from God but to Him.

   Why did Jonah try to go to Tarshish instead of Nineveh?

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   Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. The word of the Lord came to Jonah with the command to preach against the wickedness of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Kingdom (Jonah 1:1-2). However, Jonah chose to flee from the presence of the Lord instead (Jonah 1:10).

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   Mar 16, 2020 · Jonah doesn't go to Nineveh because he seems to have believed more in God's justice than in his grace. The Bible, then, has several Jonahs – icons of the faith who resisted and argued with God and ended up closer to him than before.

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   Dec 11, 2019 · We learn in the first chapter of the book of Jonah, that God wanted Jonah to go to a place called Nineveh to tell them that they had been being bad people and that God was mad at them. But, instead of doing what God wanted, Jonah tried to run away, as far from Nineveh as possible.

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   Jonah's reluctance to go to Nineveh reveals his struggle with obedience and compassion. Discover the deeper lessons of Jonah's story and its rich symbolism in this intriguing biblical narrative.

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   Why did Jonah run away from God to Tarshish? 1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”. 3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.

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   Why did he refuse to go to Nineveh? Not because he was afraid of his life, or thought the task hopeless.

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   Oct 25, 2024 · It is reasonable to assume that Jonah fled to Tarshish instead of going to Nineveh as the LORD had directed him because he and his fellow-countrymen, the Israelites, hated and were afraid of the wicked and violent Assyrians.