God: “Preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me” (1:2). God: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you” (3:2). Jonah: “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned” (3:4b). Assyrian king: “Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence” (3:8b). Narrator: When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion (3:10a). Jonah, however, chooses to flee in the opposite direction