One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Jonah. Every Jonah in the Bible
- verses
- 24
- first named
- 2 Kings 14:25
- last named
- Luke 11:32
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Prophet
Description
Who was Jonah?
Jonah was a prophet from Gath-hepher during the reign of Jeroboam II, king of Israel (2Ki.14.25). God called Jonah to preach against the wickedness of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria (Jon.1.1-2). Jonah fled by ship in the opposite direction to Tarshish (Jon.1.3). A storm arose and the sailors, discovering it was Jonah's fault, threw him overboard (Jon.1.4-15). God provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and he was in its belly for three days and nights (Jon.1.17). Jonah prayed, and the fish vomited him onto dry land (Jon.2.1-10). God again told Jonah to preach to Nineveh (Jon.3.1-2). Jonah obeyed, and the people repented (Jon.3.3-9). God relented of the disaster he had threatened (Jon.3.10). Jonah was angry that God spared the city (Jon.4.1-3). God caused a plant to shade Jonah, then made it wither (Jon.4.5-8). God used this to rebuke Jonah's lack of pity for Nineveh (Jon.4.9-11). Jesus compared his future burial and resurrection to Jonah's time in the fish (Mat.12.39-41, 16:4; Luk.11.29-32).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Jonah is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
24 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (1), Jonah (16), Matthew (4) and Luke (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 24, across 4 books. The name is written 28 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Jonah 1Jonah was sent to preach against Nineveh, fled by ship toward Tarshish, slept through the storm, and was cast into the sea.
- Jonah 2Jonah prayed from inside the fish, remembered the LORD in his fading life, and promised a sacrifice of thanksgiving before being vomited onto dry land.
- Jonah 3Jonah went to Nineveh and proclaimed that in forty days it would be overturned.
- Jonah 4Jonah became angry that Nineveh was spared, watched the city from his shelter, and grieved when his plant withered.
- Matthew 12Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish.
- Luke 11Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites.
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