1. Minor Prophets
Jonah
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2. The Subjugated Kingdom
Jonah
Micah
Habakkuk
Joel?
Malachi
Nahum
Amos
Zechariah
Haggai
Zephaniah
Hosea
800 BC
700 BC
600 BC
500 BC
400 BC
Israel
Judah
The Divided Kingdom
The Fading Kingdom
The Kingdom in Exile
The Subjugated Kingdom
Obadiah

3. Jonah Amos Hosea Israel Judah The Divided Kingdom 800 BC 700 BC 600 BC

4. Jehoram JUDAH ISRAEL Joash Jehoahaz Amaziah Jeroboam II Uzziah Ahaziah
Ahaziah
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Jehu
Athaliah
Joash
Amaziah
Uzziah
Jehoahaz
Jeroboam II
JUDAH
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5. Jehoram JUDAH ISRAEL Joash Jehoahaz Amaziah Jeroboam II Uzziah Ahaziah
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Athaliah
Joash
Amaziah
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2 Kings 14:23-28
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.
And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.

6. Jehoram JUDAH ISRAEL Joash Jehoahaz Amaziah Jeroboam II Uzziah Ahaziah
Ahaziah
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Jehu
Athaliah
Joash
Amaziah
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Jehoahaz
Jeroboam II
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ISRAEL
2 Kings 14:23-28
He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.
1) Time of Jonah’s Life
2) Where Jonah lived

7. Gath-Hepher
Israel
Judah

8. Sea of Galilee
Gath-Hepher
Jezre’el Valley
Jezre’el
To Samaria

9. Jonah 1.1-3
11 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

10. Nineveh!

12. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth.
“And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left?”

15. Jonah The Word of the Lord, pt. 1 (chapters 1-2)
1. Jonah flees to Spain 1
a. The Lord’s Message
b. Jonah runs 1.3
c. The sailors fear the Lord
d. The Lord appoints a fish 1.17
2. The Prayer of Jonah— “
you brought up my life from the pit” 2
The Word of the Lord, pt. 2 (chapters 3-4)
1. Jonah goes to Nineveh   3
a. The Lord’s Message
b. Jonah preaches
c. The Ninevites believe the Lord 3.5-9
d. The Lord relents
2. The Prayer of Jonah—
“it is better for me to die than to live”
3. The Lord appoints a plant, a worm, and a Wind 4.4-8
4. “Do you do well?”

16. We can easily understand the events of the Book of Jonah; but what does it mean?
Why was it written down and included in the Scriptures?
Possible Ways of “reading” the book:
• History
• Parable
• Allegory
• Prophecy

17. What we know by reading the book:
• Jonah was a historical prophet, and the events of the narrative are all legitimately possible
• Jonah is called to leave his land and go out into the world to a nation he feared and despised
• The Lord is God in those other places; people are responsible to Him and all things are under His control
• The peoples of those lands are more responsive to God than His own prophet

18. The final question:
• “Do you do well?”

19. The Subjugated Kingdom
Micah
Habakkuk
Nahum
Zephaniah
800 BC
700 BC
600 BC
500 BC
400 BC
Israel
Judah
The Fading Kingdom
The Subjugated Kingdom

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