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NASB | Nahum 1:1 The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Nahum 1:1 The oracle (a burdensome message--a pronouncement from God) concerning Nineveh [the capital city of Assyria]. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh [which he saw in spirit and prophesied]. |
Bible Question: What happened to Jonah did God give him death as he wanted? |
Bible Answer: Your question is unknown but I can answer as a man with the same mindset. Melancholy personalities tend to be perfectionists and thinkers; they are party poopers that can always see the worst in mankind and the most negative future. When things don’t go the way they want, they ask for death—“because things are going to get worse anyway.” Elijah was most likely a melancholy personality. God did not kill Elijah as he asked in 1 Kings 19:4, but used him for many years as his servant before taking him up in a chariot only to be seen hundreds of years later as part of the Transfiguration in Matthew 17:3. [Jonah and Elijah probably knew each other and worked together. See 2 Kings 10:17 and 2 Kings 14:25, word of mouth says the servant in 1 Kings 18:43 was Jonah.] The book of Jonah is not a finished book. There are no nice ending to Jonah. Chapter four is half-way through a narrative about a gourd—God interrupts—and the book is over with us wanting more. God does not choose to give an ending to this book. I personally believe God doesn’t answer these stupid depressed prayers. He did not give Elijah his request in 1 Kings 19. He has never given me my request and I doubt He gave Jonah his request of death. Jonah had to learn to live with God’s goodness and hopefully, sitting there on the side of the cliff listening to happy people in Nineveh, with a withered gourd, he learned that God is good. God is good all the time. |