Jonah instead goes down to the port city of Jaffa, boards a ship going west, in the opposite direction for Tarshish (possibly Carthage in today’s Tunis). A violent storm arises, threatening to ...

Jonah, the son of Amitai, is asked to go to Nineveh and tell the people there, “If they do not repent, God will destroy their city.” Jonah decides to run away to Tarshish on a boat.

Now Jonah reveals why he actually ran from God in the first place. He didn’t want to go to Nineveh because he knew the power of God’s Word.