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Jonah And Tarshish In The Book Of Jonah

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“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because their wickedness has confronted Me.” However, Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the LORD’s presence. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. He paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, from the LORD’s presence.” Jonah 1:1-3 (My wsb) Nineveh, Joppa and Tarshish are the locations that the scripture mentions in the book of Jonah. As we already know, his main destination was to head to Nineveh, however he headed to the sea port in Joppa (Jaffa), an old city in the Mediterranean, northwest of Jerusalem. From there Jonah boarded a ship towards Tarshish, a city near Gibraltar located in Spain. Out on the Mediterranean Sea is where
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