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    Jonah Bible Quiz

    Ten KJV questions on Jonah — the flight to Tarshish, the tempest, the belly of the fish, and the gourd at Nineveh.

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    Where was Jonah sent to preach?

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    Q1.Where was Jonah sent to preach?

    Answer: Nineveh

    Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

    Reference: Jonah 1:2 (KJV)

    Q2.Where did Jonah try to flee to?

    Answer: Tarshish

    But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

    Reference: Jonah 1:3 (KJV)

    Q3.From what port did Jonah set sail?

    Answer: Joppa

    And he went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish.

    Reference: Jonah 1:3 (KJV)

    Q4.What did the LORD send upon the sea?

    Answer: A great wind

    But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea.

    Reference: Jonah 1:4 (KJV)

    Q5.How was Jonah cast lots upon?

    Answer: The lot fell upon him to know for whose cause the evil was upon them

    And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.

    Reference: Jonah 1:7 (KJV)

    Q6.What did God prepare to swallow Jonah?

    Answer: A great fish

    Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

    Reference: Jonah 1:17 (KJV)

    Q7.How long was Jonah in the fish?

    Answer: Three days and three nights

    And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

    Reference: Jonah 1:17 (KJV)

    Q8.What did Jonah preach in Nineveh?

    Answer: Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown

    And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

    Reference: Jonah 3:4 (KJV)

    Q9.What did God prepare to shade Jonah?

    Answer: A gourd

    And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head.

    Reference: Jonah 4:6 (KJV)

    Q10.What did God prepare to smite the gourd?

    Answer: A worm

    But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

    Reference: Jonah 4:7 (KJV)

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