Jonah 1:7
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They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageJoppa was a Mediterranean port in ancient Israel, where Jonah boarded a ship to flee from the Lord’s command. Nineveh was the major Assyrian city to which God had sent him to preach, making Jonah’s westward voyage a deliberate rejection of his eastward mission.
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Jonah 1:7 mentions Joppa and Nineveh.
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