Jonah

Jonah 3

Chapter 3 is a really powerful part of Jonah’s story, maybe even the most powerful. People tend to focus on the fish and the plant, but those are really secondary to the story of God’s never-ending search to deliver humans. This is the main course of the little book, and in it I find three […]

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Jonah 2 (Part 2)

So, we’re working through the book of Jonah, and we handled (as much as possible) the deal with the huge fish in the last post. There is one more important thing about chapter 2 that I’d like to consider here. How did Jonah survive? According to everything I have been taught, Jonah was swallowed by

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Jonah 2 (Part 1)

Ok, ok, I know – in your Bible the fish is actually mentioned in chapter 1, verse 17. However, in the Hebrew text, chapter 2 actually has 11 verses, not 10, and begins with our 1:17. This actually makes more sense because it keeps the whole fish story in one section. That said, Jonah 2

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