The prophet Jonah, best known
for his encounter with an extremely large fish, is first mentioned in relation
to a prophecy he made which was fulfilled when Jeroboam II (ca. 793–753 B.C.)
was able to expand the borders of Israel:
2
Kings 14:25 He (Jeroboam) restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of
Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai,
the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
We know this is the same Jonah
because of the mention of his father Amittai in 2 Kings and in the book of Jonah.
The 2 Kings passage also tells us that he was from the town of Gathepher (meaning
winepress of the well) located about 14 miles west of the Sea of Galilee about
5 miles from Nazareth where Jesus would later spend his boyhood.
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