VIII. THE HISTORICITY OF THE BOOK OF JONAH.

_"According to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the
hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai the prophet, which was of
Gath-hepher." 2 Kings xiv. 25._

_"The word of the Lord came unto Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,
Arise go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it: for their
wickedness is come up before me." Jonah i. 1, 2._

_"So Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the
Lord." Jonah iii.. 3._

_"And he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown." Jonah iii. 4._

_"So the people of Nineveh believed God." Jonah iii. 5._

_"And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God
repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did
it not." Jonah iii. 10._

_"The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and
shall condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonas."
Matt. xii. 41._


The book of Jonah has been attacked by the destructive critics. Its