Jewish Prophets

Jonah
Prophet to: Foreign Nation
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Sent to warn the inhabitants of the Assyrian capital of Ninevah about God's Judgement. Jonah fled his call because it was the Assyrians who were destroying the Jews. As he was escaping on a ship bound for Tarshish a great storm arose. The sailors concluded that this tempest came on account of Jonah so they threw him overboard. He was immediately swallowed by a great sea monster prepared by God. Jonah repented in the bowels of the creature and was released the third morning. He went to Nineveh and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!" (Jonah 3:4)
As a result of his preaching the people changed their ways and God spared the city.

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Amos
Prophet to: Israel (Northern Kingdom)
Kings: Jeroboam II
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Amos was born in Judah but prophesied in Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II. He condemned Israel's neighboring countries for their cruelty, but mostly Israel for breaking God's laws. He prophesied at Bethel which became the center of idol worship and the residence of king Jeroboam II. He warned that the Israelites would be taken captive by the Assyrians.

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