Jonah

The story about Jonah

(The book in the Holy Bible called

About this story

This story is about a man called Jonah. He lived about 800 years before Jesus came to earth.

This story was in God’s book that the Israel people had before Jesus came to earth. That book is now the first part of the Holy Bible, called the Old Testament.

Jonah was a man that God picked to tell people his messages. Back then, God normally just told his own Israel people his messages, he didn’t normally tell messages to other nations. But the story of Jonah is different. Jonah lived in Israel country, but God sent him to a big city called Nineveh, that was not in Israel country. Nineveh was in a country called Assyria, and the people from Nineveh were enemies of God’s Israel people. God sent Jonah to Nineveh to tell the Nineveh people his message.

At first, Jonah didn’t listen to God. He tried to run away from God. But God still wanted to use Jonah to tell the Nineveh people his message. So God talked to Jonah again.

This story happened a long time ago, but it is still very important for us today. It shows us that God uses his people to share his messages. And it shows us that God cares about people, and that everyone needs to hear God’s message. And it shows us that sometimes bad people listen to God, and they tell him they are sorry, and they stop living the wrong way. And then God feels sorry for them, and he doesn’t punish them. He lets go of all the bad things that they did, and he is very good to them.