Jonah
Jonah, whose name means a dove, was a person in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanach, the son of Amittai of Gath-hepher.He was a prophet of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel, and predicted the restoration of the ancient boundaries (2 Kings 14:25-27) of the kingdom. This prophecy was fulfilled already during the reign of Jeroboam II, under whom Jonah exercised his ministry. Timewise this may mean he was contemporary with the prophets Hosea and Amos; or possibly he preceded them, and consequently may have been the very oldest of all the prophets whose writings we possess.
His personal history is mainly to be gathered from the Book of Jonah. It is chiefly interesting from the two-fold character in which he appears, (1) as a missionary to heathen Nineveh, and (2) as a type of the "Son of man".
Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed
Walker tried. The young man went in pursuit of Miss Miller,
and had gone her way with her companion. Daisy, on learning
with a perfect good grace and with Mr. Giovanelli at her side.
gentleman to Mrs. Walker. She immediately achieved the introduction,
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driving round with it."
"Do get in and drive with me!" said Mrs. Walker.
"That would be charming, but it's so enchanting just as I am!"
side of her.
"It may be enchanting, dear child, but it is not the custom here,"
hands devoutly clasped.
"Well, it ought to be, then!" said Daisy. "If I didn't walk
from Geneva, losing patience.
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And then, you know," she added with a laugh, "I am more than five years old."
"You are old enough.html">enough to be more reasonable. You are old enough,
What do you mean?"
"Come into my carriage, and I will tell you."
Daisy turned her quickened glance again from one of the gentlemen beside her
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"I don't think I should like it."
Winterbourne wished that Mrs. Walker would tuck in her carriage rug and drive
"Should you prefer being thought a very reckless girl?" she demanded.
"Gracious!" exclaimed Daisy. She looked again at Mr. Giovanelli,
her cheek; she was tremendously pretty. "Does Mr. Winterbourne.
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