Jonah Flees the Presence of the Lord
1Now the word of the Lord came to aJonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2“Arise, go to bNineveh, that cgreat city, and call out against it, dfor their evil1 has come up before me.” 3But Jonah erose to flee to fTarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to gJoppa and found a ship going to fTarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to fTarshish, haway from the presence of the Lord.
Footnotes
- 1 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah
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