Bible Trivia - 8/11/2008

Question: To what town was the boat headed from which Jonah was thrown?

Answer: Tarshish. (Jonah 1:2-3)

Comments: After God told Jonah to go to Nineveh, he proceeded to Joppa and boarded a boat destined for Tarshish. Tarshish was the opposite direction from where God had told him to go. Nineveh is to the east, Tarshish to the west. Nineveh could be reached by land, Tarshish only by sea.

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. (Jonah 1:3, NASB)

It was on this trip that he was thrown and swallowed by the notorious "great fish".