SUMMARY OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JONAH

 

BIBLICAL PERIOD

# 7 THE DIVIDED KINGDOM

 

FOCUS

Prophetic mission announced

Prophetic mission rejected

Prophetic mission accepted

COVENANT

The Sinai Covenant

SCRIPTURE

1:1-----------------------1:3-----------2:1----------2:3----------3:1--------4:1-----11

 

DIVISION OF TEXT

 

Announce-ment of the mission to the Assyrian Gentiles of Nineveh

Reluctance to accept mission to call Nineveh to repentance

Jonah's attempt to run away

 

Judgment

on

Jonah=

3 days in the belly of the fish

Jonah

Repents      and accepts his mission

Mission to Nineveh/Success Nineveh repents

Temper tantrum over success and God's rebuke

 

TOPIC

 

God's patience and mercy on Jonah

God's patience and mercy on Nineveh and Jonah

LOCATION

Galilee? - Jaffa

The Mediterranean Sea

The Assyrian capital city of Nineveh

TIME

ca. 762

 

 

TIME LINE BC

---------------------------------------ASSYRIAN EMPIRE--------------------------------

------------------------------Divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah---------------Judah----

765________762                    ____             _740_          _737_____          _722____

Plague           Jonah's                                                  commissioning Assyria                          Assyria

decimates      mission of the Prophet    conquers                        conquers

Nineveh      to Nineveh                                                       Isaiah the Galilee =                     Israel =

                  Exile of Naphtali           Exile of the

                      and Zebulun                     remaining tribes

                          (ca.40 yrs. after Jonah's mission)

 

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