The Bible In Paintings: ANGRY JONAH GETS DUNKED

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ANGRY JONAH
GETS DUNKED

J O N A H
CHAPTER 1

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.”

BUT JONAH RAN AWAY FROM THE LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.

Then the LORD sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.

But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us, and we will not perish.”

Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.

So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”

He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land.”

This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the LORD, because he had already told them so.)

The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

“Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. Then they cried to the LORD, “O LORD, please do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, O LORD, have done as you pleased.” Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows to him.

BUT THE LORD PROVIDED a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.

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"Jonah Swallowed"

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FRITZ FLEER
"Jonas und der Wal"

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ARNAUD DE MOLES
"Ionas Propheta"

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SALVADOR DALÍ
"Jonah in the Sea"

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DOUGLAS RAMSEY
"Into the Deep"

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HE QI
"Jonah & the Whale"

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RUTH COLLET
"Jonah Is Thrown Overboard"

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RUTH COLLET
"Jonah inside the Belly of a Great Fish"

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ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER
"Jonah"

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PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Sailors Reluctantly Throw the Prophet Jonah into the Sea"

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JOHN AUGUST SWANSON
"Jonah"

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MATTTHIEU VAN PLATTENBERG
"Jonah Being Thrown from the Boat to the Whale"

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ELBRIDGE KINGSLEY
"Jonah"

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HANS MOLLER
"Fishes (Jonah)"

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"Jonah in the Belly of the Whale"

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"Jonah Cast into the Sea"

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EPHRAIM MOSES LILIEN
"Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea"

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PAUL BRIL
"Jonah's Story"

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ADRIEN MANGLARD
"Jonas Falling into the Sea"

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"Jonah Swallowed by the Great Fish"

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DOMINICUS CUSTOS
"Jonah Cast into the Sea"

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ALBERTUS PICTOR
"The Prophet Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea
and Engulfed by the Great Fish"

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"Jonah and the Whale"

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CARLO ANTONIO TAVELLA
"Jonah and the Whale"

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ADAM WILLAERTS
"Jonah and the Whale"

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SHERRY HELLER
"Jonah Fleeing the Call of God
to Go to Ninevah"

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MATTHEW 12

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.”

He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”

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J O N A H
Prelude – TRIBUTES TO JONAH
ANGRY JONAH GETS DUNKED
WHEN SWALLOWED: REPENT AND PRAY!!!
GOD COMPLETES JONAH'S RESCUE
JONAH PREACHES, NINEVEH REPENTS!

[Red Badger]

#1 looks like a Dogfish...........................

[SisterK]

#21
the line drawing
clean and elegant

good morning!

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OK

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It stands out from the rest by contrast. I try to avoid posting an endless procession of look-alikes.

[Big Red Badger]

DogFish,,,Yuppers!
.
Jonah really left
His bark-—
I meant Mark.

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The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

“Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

Why didn't he just jump?

Why force others to think they had murdered him?

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Good Morning, Dan. :-)

Father Mapple’s Sermon on Jonah:

(from Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”)

https://americanliterature.com/author/herman-melville/book/moby-dick-or-the-whale/chapter-9-the-sermon

(Herman was not a Theologian but he sure could spin a yarn)

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Compare to The Great Wave off Kanagawa:

Hard to beat traditional Japanese art for elegance and simplicity.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Just guessing: Them ejecting him demonstrated, proved, their separation from him, and thus hopefully from whatever woes attached to him.

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(Herman was not a Theologian but he sure could spin a yarn)

Yup. he also had a whole section on whether a whale is a fish, Ismael came to the conclusion that a whale is a fish, despite being an air-breathing warm-blooded mammal.

[etabeta]

Good morning! All great depictions of the storm and Jonah. #21 influenced by Hokusai “Great Wave”?

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Nu, so Melville wasn’t a Biologist either. LOL.

But, one doesn’t have to be a Biologist to be an author...or a Supreme Court Justice either I guess. :-)

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I am partway through and will complete it anon. I note it is quite imaginative, embellishing the basic text.

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See post #10.

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I finished it a couple of weeks ago, and then started a book by Humberto Eco. I ended up hating the Eco book so much that I tossed it.

I later read that it was Eco’s expressed ambition to make his protagonist the “MOST DISAGREEABLE CHARACTER IN ALL OF LITERATURE”.

he succeeded. :-)

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M-L 1, Eco 0.

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Too true, but Ishmael’s monologue gives insight to the thinking process that as recently as a few hundred years ago would classify a whale as a fish.

That’s why pretty much everyone would consider a whale a fish in Old Testament times.

[InkStone]

Good Morning Dan, and good morning to all.

One of the best Bible stories, and certainly relevant today. Thank you.

Dan, RE: #24 - I love the sailor on the left, and I can hear him say, “Whew... finally”