Main idea: God is too merciful to simply leave unrepentant sinners in their unrepentant sin.
Outline:
- God’s merciful proclamation to a foreign people (Jonah 1:1-2)
- God’s merciful pursuit of a fleeing prophet (Jonah 1:3-4a)
Secondary sources cited:
- Daniel David Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926). Quoted in R. Reed Lessing, Jonah, Concordia Commentary (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2007).