Please read Jonah 1; 2 Kings 14:23–27; Luke 11:29–32 ‘The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me” ’ (Jonah 1:1–2). What was the purpose of Jonah’s mission? Why did God want him to go to Nineveh and preach to the very people who, some forty years on, would be responsible for the total destruction of Israel? An assessment of the content of the book, in its context and in