The final verses of the book demand that the purpose of the book focus on Yahweh. While such a lesson would certainly suggest implications for Jonah, Israel and us, the narrator’s resolution concerns the character of Yahweh, and leaves to inference the ramifications. In the object lesson the equation suggested is that Jonah = Nineveh. It is this equation that is used to bring out the essential aspects about the nature of Yahweh. Certain deduction can now be made on the
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