11So, why can''t I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than a hundred and twenty thousand childlike people who don''t yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals?"d
Jonah 4 is the startling conclusion to a book that refuses to let us settle into comfortable categories. Having finally obeyed God's call to preach judgment to Nineveh — and having seen the entire city repent — Jonah does not celebrate. He rages. The chapter exposes the prophet's
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