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.

But the eyes of God were watching Jonah, and he found himself caught up in a storm that threatened to break the ship apart. When it became apparent to Jonah that he was the reason for the storm ...

The divinely storm-tossed ship in Jonah’s first chapter calms when he is thrown overboard, just as the Red Sea settles as the Egyptians sink to the bottom.

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.

RELUCTANT PROPHET—Harald Tandrup —Knopf ($2.50).Until he was 32, little doe-eyed Jonah, the Tyre cakeseller, merely talked with the Lord for his own personal pleasure. But when he ...