According to the final verse of the book, how many people in Nineveh did not know their right hand from their left?
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Correct answer: More than 120,000
God concludes the book by highlighting the city's vast population, specifically mentioning over 120,000 people who were spiritually or physically immature. This served to justify God's compassion for the city.
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- In which other book of the Bible is Jonah's prophetic work in Israel mentioned?
- To which city did the Lord initially command Jonah to go and preach against its wickedness?
- What was the name of Jonah's father?
- Instead of obeying God, Jonah fled to Joppa to board a ship heading to which location?
- During the great storm, what was Jonah doing while the sailors were crying out to their gods and lightening the ship?
- How did the sailors determine that Jonah was the cause of the storm?