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Solar Eclipse Preceded Jonah's visit to Nineveh. What's not mentioned in the book of Jonah but is recorded in Assyria's historical record and is known to NASA and modern astronomers is that before ...

Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?

British poet William Ernest Henley published a short poem that expressed one way to cope with life’s circumstances.  The poem ...

Jonah hated Nineveh; he did not want its reconciliation with God; he wanted its destruction. So, he sails away on a ship. When a storm comes, the crew and passengers pray to their gods for ...

God tells Jonah to let the city of Nineveh know that God will destroy it for its sinfulness. Jonah doesn’t want to, for whatever reason, so he flees to a ship.

Jonah then arrives in Nineveh, a city so vast, we are told, it would take three-days to traverse – the exact length of time the enslaved Israelites had asked for a respite from their ...

There is a second postmark for Nineveh, one of the great cities of antiquity, now called Mosul, Iraq. In the Bible, Jonah was ...

The prophet Jonah preached, “Yet 40 days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.” This ancient pagan city in 760 BC believed the preaching of Jonah, repented, and God spared them.