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Last part about Jonah before moving on.Jonah
According to the Bible, when the people of nineveh repented, Jonah was upset an the Lord's mercy.
In fact, he asked God to kill him.
Jonah 4
1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live
A possible reason for this was that the assyrians were enemies of the Israelites, so it could be that Jonah wanted to see them destroyed. Both to save his own people and to satisfy his own sense of justice.
The story of Jonah is an example of God extending his mercy to the gentiles. It is also an example of the gentiles repenting at the words of one of God's prophets more readily than the Israelites. Jesus mentions this is the New Testament when he says:
Matthew 12
38Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here