The prophet Jonah is commissioned by God to go to Nineveh in Assyria. Watch the dramatic events that follow as he discovers the true meaning of courage and mercy.

Jonah 1:1-17—Read the Bible online or download free. The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is published by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

What made Nineveh important to Jehovah? How did God use a bottle-gourd plant to teach Jonah a lesson in mercy? How did the people respond to Jonah’s message?

Jonah prayed to Jehovah, glorifying him as Savior and promising to pay what he had vowed. On the third day the prophet was vomited out onto dry land.— Jonah 1:17–2:10. Commissioned a second time to go to Nineveh, he undertook the long journey there.

In his Word, Jehovah has preserved the life stories of men and women of faith in order to teach us valuable lessons. (Ro 15:4) What did you learn from the book of Jonah? Watch the video Family Worship: Jonah —Learning From Jehovah’s Mercy, and then answer the following questions: What challenges did the three publishers in the video face?

JONAH, BOOK OF The only book in the Hebrew Scriptures dealing exclusively with the commission of a prophet of Jehovah to proclaim in and for a non-Israelite city a message of doom, and which proclamation resulted in that city’s repentance.

HIGHLIGHTS OF JONAH The experiences of Jonah when he was assigned to prophesy to a pagan people, the inhabitants of Nineveh It was written about 844 B.C.E., some 100 years before Assyria took Israel into exile Jonah’s flight (1:1–2:10) Jonah is commissioned to warn the Ninevites of Jehovah’s anger but takes passage on a ship bound for ...

In a book completed over two centuries earlier, the prophet Jonah candidly relates what he personally experienced in connection with his missionary assignment. The 60 years of Micah’s prophetic activity lie between those of Obadiah and Jonah, stretching from …

So it appears that Jonah served as a prophet to the ten-tribe kingdom sometime during the reign of Jeroboam II. He is evidently the same person Jehovah commissioned to proclaim judgment against Nineveh (Jon 1:1, 2) and, therefore, also the writer of the book bearing his name.

The Story of Jonah-A Lesson in Courage and Mercy: Directed by M. Stephen Lett. The prophet Jonah chooses to disobey Jehovah's command to preach judgment upon the Assyrian city of Nineveh; but through the dramatic events that follow, he discovers the true meaning of …