Scholarly comments are given in brackets after each verse.
Chapter 1
1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathine: (The book of the prophet Jonah, both in style and in content, belongs to the same genre as the Book of Ruth. The main character of the book is Jonah, the son of Amathine. This, apparently, is a real historical In the 2nd Book of Kings, he is mentioned as a prophet who lived in the kingdom of Israel under the kings Jehoahaz, Joash and Jeroboam II, that is, at the end of the 9th – the first half of the 8th century. Then Israel was endlessly attacked by its neighbors, especially the kings Damascus.Jeroboam managed not only to repel the offensive of Damascus, but also to go on the offensive himself.In this regard, the chronicler inserted several lines about Jonah into the text; telling about Jeroboam, that this king "restored the borders of Israel from the entrance to Hamath to the desert sea ", the chronicler added: "according to the word of Yahweh the God of Israel, which he spoke through his servant Jonah, the son of Amathien, the prophet from Gathhefer"; 2 Kings 14:25. More about this ancient prophet Jonah is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible. Priests-hypnotists "broadcast" through the prophets in order to "not shine", but to remain behind the scenes).
2 Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it, for its wickedness has reached me. (“Jonah was from Galilee. His life is attributed to the era of the Israelite king Jeroboam II. Therefore, he was born surrounded by heretics. One day he received an order from God to go preach in Nineveh. Jonah was the only prophet who received a mission of this kind. What language did he preach in, asks Voltaire, noting in passing that from the homeland of Jonah to Nineveh was a distance of more than six hundred kilometers. Jonah did not foresee the particular success of his sermons, "says Leo Taxil, Amusing Bible, p. 398. Nineveh is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, existed from the 5th millennium BC to 612 BC Nineveh is one of the main political and religious centers of Assyria).
3 And Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and came to Joppa, and found a ship that was going to Tarshish, paid the freight, and entered it to sail with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. (Instead of going to Nineveh, he moved in the opposite direction, because he wanted to escape from the annoying priest-hypnotist, who had a face. Joppa – Jaffa. Tarshish – Tartes, in the territory of modern Spain).
