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Jonah 1:1-3
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Jonah runs away

1 The Lord spoke a message to Jonah, Amittai's son.[a] 2 He said, ‘Go now to the great city of Nineveh. Tell the people in the city that I know how wicked they are. Tell them that I will punish them because of their sins.’

3 But Jonah did not want to obey the Lord's command. He decided to run away to Tarshish.[b] He went down to Joppa.[c] There he found a ship that was ready to sail to Tarshish. After he had paid for the journey, he got into the ship. He wanted to go on the ship to Tarshish, to get far away from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:1 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.
  2. 1:3 Tarshish was a port that was far away to the west.
  3. 1:3 Joppa was a port in Israel, on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
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