Jonah 1:1

THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JONAH

Chronological Notes relative to this Book, upon the supposition that the repentance of the Ninevites happened in the twenty-third

year of the reign of Jehu, king of Israel.

-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3142.

-Year of the Julian Period, 3852.

-Year since the Flood, 1486.

-Year from the foundation of Solomon's temple, 150.

-Year since the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 114.

-Year before the first Olympiad, 86.

-Year before the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 109.

-Year before the birth of Jesus Christ, 858.

-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 862.

-Twelfth year of Charilaus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Proclidae.

-Fifty-second year of Archelaus, king of Lacedaemon, of the family of the Eurysthenidae.

-Second year of Phereclus, perpetual archon of the Athenians.

-Fourteenth year of Alladius Sylvius, king of the Albans.

-Twenty-third year of Jehu, king of Israel.

-Seventeenth year of Joash, king of Judah.

CHAPTER I

Jonah, sent to Nineveh, flees to Tarshish, 1-3.

He is overtaken by a great tempest, 4-14;

thrown into the sea, 15, 16;

and swallowed by a fish, in the belly of which he is

miraculously preserved alive three days and three nights, 17.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Jonah 1:1. Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah] All that is certainly known about this prophet has already been laid before the reader. He was of Gath-hepher, in the tribe of Zebulun, in lower Galilee, Joshua 19:13; and he prophesied in the reigns of Jeroboam the Second, and Joash, kings of Israel. Jeroboam came to the throne eight hundred and twenty-three years before the Christian era, and reigned in Samaria forty-one years, 2 Kings 14:23-12. As a prophet, it is likely that he had but this one mission.