Jonah is is given by the hebrew Bible as a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC. Jonah was one of the greatest prophets during the time of Jeroboam II. Jonah was the son of Amitai, he lived in the Galilean city of Gath-hepher (about four miles north of Nazareth). Nineveh was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity. The area was settled as early as 6000 BCE and had become an important religious centre for worship of the goddess Ishtar. The city and the near by buildings were constructed on a fault line and consequently suffered terrible damage from a number of earthquakes. Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, and was destroyed in 612 B.C. by the Medes. The Medes were an people of Indo-Iranian origin who had inhabited the western and north-western portion of Iran.
A prophet, named Jonah was spoken to, by jesus "Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it before me."Jonah did not wish to preach to the people of Nineveh because they were the enemies of his land, the land of Israel. He wished for the people of Nineveh to die because they didn't turn to god. So Jonah decided flee from the city where God had sent him and took a ship for the city called Tarshish.
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Jonah ordered the sailors to throw him overboard, because he knew that the storm was happening because he didn’t obey the lord. The sailors asked why have you brought all this trouble upon us?”. Jonah told them the whole story, how he came from the land of Israel, and that he had fled away from the Lord. Jonah then said "Take me up and throw me into the sea then the storm will cease and the waters will be calm; The sailors threw him overboard and everything else on the ship and when they could do no more, every man prayed to his god to save the ship and