Jonah 1

Jonah 1
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"Jonah being swallowed by the fish". Kennicott Bible, folio 305r (1476).
Book	Book of Jonah
Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Bible part	32
Category	Nevi'im

Jonah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jonah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jonah, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

This chapter can be grouped into:

Based on Book of 2 Kings (2 Kings 14:25), Jonah is of Gath-hepher in Zebulun (called Gittah-hepher in Joshua 19:10-13), so that he belonged to the kingdom of the ten tribes, not to Judah. He prophesied the restoration of the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain to the Kingdom of Israel which was fulfilled during the reign of Jeroboam the son of Joash. Now as this prophecy of Jonah was given at a time when Israel was at the lowest point of depression, when "there was not any shut up or left," that is, confined or left at large, none to act as a helper for Israel, it cannot have been given in Jeroboam's reign, which was marked by prosperity, for in it Syria was worsted in fulfillment of the prophecy, and Israel raised to its former "greatness." It must have been, therefore, in the early part of the reign of Joash, Jeroboam's father, who had found Israel in subjection to Syria, but had raised it by victories which were followed up so successfully by Jeroboam. Thus Jonah was the earliest of the prophets, and close upon Elisha, who died in Joash's reign, having just before his death given a token prophetical of the thrice defeat of Syria (2 Kings 13:14-21).