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Obadiah, Jonah and Micah: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Obadiah’s oracle against Edom. Jonah’s mission to the city of Nineveh. Micah’s message to Samaria and Jerusalem. The texts of these minor but important prophets receive a fresh and penetrating analysis in this introduction and commentary. The authors consider each book’s historical setting, composition, structure and authorship, as well as important themes and issues. Each book is then expounded...

the sun beats down on his head. The action of the sun is described in the same way as that of the worm destroying the gourd; the verb wattak, ‘it attacked’, is used in both instances. As a result Jonah becomes faint, probably suffering from sunstroke. All this is too much for him, and like Elijah under the broom tree, he expresses his desire to die.26 Though the final words of the verse are identical in the Hebrew original to those at the end of verse 3, NIV has It would be better for me to die than
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