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Summary
Jonah 1:1 - 1:3

1:1. Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

1:2. Arise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me.

Nineveh. . .The capital city of the Assyrian empire.

1:3. Jonah rose up to flee into Tarshish from the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish: and he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord,

The Coloured Picture Bible for Children Illustrator: Richard Andre Place: London Date: 1884. Source: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge