Jonah 3&4

Meditation verse for the book of Jonah chapters 3&4: In Chapter 3, we read about Jonah when he called the people of Nineveh for repentance and how they returned to God with fasting and praying.

In Chapter 4, we read how Jonah was angry because God forgave Nineveh! God taught Jonah a lesson about His mercy and forgiveness when God brought a plant for him and God took it away to show him that He cares for all people.

In Chapter 3 verses 7 and 8, we see how the people of Nineveh repented immediately with fasting and prayers. When we repent, we should repent quickly with humility and fasting.

".................. therefore, and be converted, that your ..................... may be blotted out." (Acts 3:19)

• Repent, sins

• Confess, prayers

• Pray, confession

Please fill in the blanks: "Arise, go to .............., that great city, and ............. to it the message that I tell you."

• Egypt, explain

• Nineveh, preach

• Jerusalem, say

Who arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord?

• David

• Joseph

• Jonah

True or false: The people of Nineveh believed God and fasted after Jonah said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

• True

• False

Please fill in the blanks: "But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and .......... mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn his evil way and from the ............. that is in his hand."

• Cry, violence

• Rejoice, hurt

• Praise, Stuggle

True or false: God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way, but God did not forgive them.

• True

• False

What was Jonah's reaction after the people of Nineveh fasted and returned to God and God forgave them?

• He became angry

• He praised God

• He became happy

Please fill in the blanks: "... For I know that You are a gracious and .............. God, slow to answer and abundant in .............., one who relents from doing harm."

• Loving, mercy

• Merciful, lovingkindness

• Peaceful, grace

What did God prepare for Jonah and made it come over him so that it might be shade for his head?

• A house

• A tent

• A plant

Please fill in the blank: "And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than ......... persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left - and much livestock?"

• Two hundred and forty thousand

• One hundred and twenty thousand

• Three hundred and fifty thousand