070 Jonah

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Jonah is introduced as a prophet who receives a divine command to travel to Nineveh and proclaim a message because the city is extremely wicked. Instead of obeying, Jonah flees in the opposite direction, boarding a ship to escape. A powerful wind and violent storm threaten the ship’s survival. The frightened sailors seek help from their gods and lighten the vessel, but the turmoil intensifies. Jonah explains the storm’s cause—his flight from the Lord—and instructs them to throw him into the sea for it to become calm.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryReligion & Spirituality

FormatPDF

Pages24

Reading Time1 h 0 min

Jonah’s Calling

Jonah’s Flight

The Storm and Sailors’ Response

Jonah’s Explanation and Instruction

070 Jonah 2 Kings 14:25 2 Kings 19:36 Jonah 1-4 English Spiritual 070 Jonah English © 2020 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) You are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc. Original illustrations by Jim Padgett, © Sweet Publishing licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. [www.sweetpublishing.com](www.sweetpublishing.com) Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has skin darkened all of the Jim Padgett illustrations in our collection, and has modified some of them. Story script © 2018 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Template © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Music © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. A special thanks to the 50+ unnamed people who worked on the story scripts, templates, adapted illustrations and music. One day the Lord spoke to a prophet named Jonah. He told Jonah,“Go to the great city of Nineveh in the land of Assyria! Preach to them because the city is very wicked.” But Jonah set out in the opposite direction in order to get away from the Lord. He got on a ship sailing away from Nineveh hoping he would escape from the Lord. As the ship sailed, the Lord sent a powerful wind, and a violent storm came up. The storm was so violent that the ship was about to break apart. The frightened sailors cried out to their gods to save them from drowning. Then they threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship’s load. They hoped that doing this would keep the ship from sinking. But the storm got worse. Then Jonah told the sailors,“I know this storm is happening because I have fled from the Lord. He is the God of heaven who made the land and the sea. Throw me into the sea, and it will become calm.” The sailors did not want to hurt Jonah, so they tried desperately to row the ship to land. But the storm was so violent that they could not do it. So they picked him up and threw him into thesea.

FAQs

Why does Jonah receive a message from the Lord?

The Lord tells Jonah to go to Nineveh because the city is very wicked and to preach to its people.

How does Jonah respond to the divine command?

Jonah goes in the opposite direction, trying to escape the Lord by boarding a ship sailing away from Nineveh.

What happens during the storm, and what does Jonah say to the sailors?

The Lord sends a powerful wind and the storm becomes so violent that the ship is about to break. Jonah tells the sailors the storm is happening because he fled from the Lord and instructs them to throw him into the sea.

Jul 15, 2026

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