Jonah was determined to avoid doing a distasteful job, preaching to a pagan city, that they might repent. He would rather go the opposite direction than tell the Ninevites that judgment could be averted.
Dr. Erwin Lutzer: April 8, 2014
Jonah was determined to avoid doing a distasteful job, preaching to a pagan city, that they might repent. He would rather go the opposite direction than tell the Ninevites that judgment could be averted.