JONAH’S CRUSADE

In the huge city of Nineveh Jonah warns them that because of their great wickedness and violence God will destroy their city. He rather enjoyed pronouncing God’s judgment against them, but they humbled themselves before God and repented with prayer and fasting and the wearing of sackcloth. When the forty days were up, Jonah was outside the city on a hill waiting to witness the prophesied destruction. He is disappointed when God, because of their repentance, in his great mercy forgives the men of Nineveh.