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Unlike most prophetic books in the Bible, Jonah is mostly narrative. It does not contain lengthy prophetic messages, but rather it is a record of events—dramatic, action-packed events. The lessons it teaches can effect one for eternity! Butler examines Jonah in the following chapters: • Duty • Disobedience • Disturbance • Detection • Dialogue • Debarkation • Disbelief ...

book of Jonah attests to that fact. When we get our priorities straight, duty will be a high priority for us, too. To examine in detail this rousing declaration of duty which God gave to Jonah as recorded in the first two verses of the book of Jonah, we will consider the source, servant, specifics, and support of the duty which God assigned to Jonah. “Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah” (v. 1). The source of Jonah’s duty was the Word of God. It is the source of our duty,
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