Prophets & Exile
Old TestamentJonah
The reluctant prophet
How the story unfolds
- 1
Fleeing to Tarshish
Jonah sails the opposite way from Nineveh.
- 2
From the belly
A psalm is prayed from inside the fish.
- 3
Nineveh repents
The city responds to a five-word sermon.
- 4
Angry under a plant
The book ends with a question, not a resolution.