Jonah 1 – 4
The sailors had already dumped all their cargo to lighten the ship before Jonah was consulted and eventually thrown overboard. Even when they knew that Jonah needed to be thrown off the ship they tried first to row near land. The sailors acted more honorably than Jonah in this episode.
Jonah’s claim that he knew the Lord would not destroy Nineveh rings hollow because if he knew that his actions declare that he thought the purple of Nineveh would repent without a call to repentance or else that God would forgive without repentance. Both those notions are false.
Jonah cared more about a bean plant that gave him shade than he did about 120,000 of his brothers and sisters.
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