diff --git a/jon/01/02.md b/jon/01/02.md index a10cfbb6f..420425160 100644 --- a/jon/01/02.md +++ b/jon/01/02.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What did Yahweh command Jonah to go and do? +# What did Yahweh tell Jonah to do? -Yahweh commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and speak out against it. +Yahweh told Jonah to get up and go to Nineveh and speak out against it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/03.md b/jon/01/03.md index f31f7ffcd..7b8feb632 100644 --- a/jon/01/03.md +++ b/jon/01/03.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What did Jonah do after he heard Yahweh’s command? +# What did Jonah do after Yahweh told him to go to Nineveh? -Jonah ran away from the presence of Yahweh to go to Tarshish. +Jonah got up to run away to Tarshish from before the face of Yahweh. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/04.md b/jon/01/04.md index 75c974f94..1e2908927 100644 --- a/jon/01/04.md +++ b/jon/01/04.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What did Yahweh do to the ship which Jonah had boarded? -Yahweh sent a great wind and a mighty storm on the sea, and it appeared that the ship would break up. +Yahweh sent a great wind and a great storm on the sea so that the ship was near to being broken up. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/07.md b/jon/01/07.md index c5ed932fd..fd183ace9 100644 --- a/jon/01/07.md +++ b/jon/01/07.md @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ -# How did the sailors determine who was the cause of the evil, and what was the result? +# How did the sailors determine who was the cause of the evil? -The sailors cast lots to determine who was the cause, and the lot indicated Jonah. +The sailors cast lots to determine the cause of the evil and the lot indicated Jonah. + +# What was the result of casting lots? + +The result was that the lot indicated that Jonah was the cause of the evil they were experiencing. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/10.md b/jon/01/10.md index 4570e28af..b806b99eb 100644 --- a/jon/01/10.md +++ b/jon/01/10.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What did Jonah say was the cause of the evil that was happening to them? +# How did the sailors know that Jonah was running away from before the face of Yahweh? -Jonah told the men that he was running from the presence of Yahweh. +The sailors knew that Jonah was running away from before the face of Yahweh because Jonah told them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/12.md b/jon/01/12.md index dd0437f58..392b5d32d 100644 --- a/jon/01/12.md +++ b/jon/01/12.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What did Jonah tell the men to do in order to stop the storm? -Jonah told the men to throw him into the sea in order to stop the storm. +Jonah told the men to lift him up and throw him into the sea. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/14.md b/jon/01/14.md index 944fb9ee7..01789b7cf 100644 --- a/jon/01/14.md +++ b/jon/01/14.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What two requests did the sailors make of Yahweh? -They asked Yahweh to not let them perish and to not hold them guilty for Jonah’s death. +The sailors asked Yahweh to not let them perish on account of the life of Jonah and to not hold them guilty for Jonah’s death. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/15.md b/jon/01/15.md index ab8b0cc01..572524b8f 100644 --- a/jon/01/15.md +++ b/jon/01/15.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What happened when the sailors threw Jonah into the sea? -When they threw Jonah into the sea, the sea stopped raging. +When the sailors threw Jonah into the sea, the sea stopped raging. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/01/17.md b/jon/01/17.md index 0e0780118..b5c627242 100644 --- a/jon/01/17.md +++ b/jon/01/17.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What happened to Jonah when they threw him into the sea? +# What happened to Jonah when the sailors threw him into the sea? -A great fish swallowed Jonah, and he was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. +Yahweh appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the abdomen of the fish three days and three nights. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/02/01.md b/jon/02/01.md index 0bbcc381e..71b408d97 100644 --- a/jon/02/01.md +++ b/jon/02/01.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What did Jonah do from the belly of the fish? +# What did Jonah do in the belly of the fish? -Jonah prayed to Yahweh for help. +Jonah cried out to Yahweh in prayer because he was distressed. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/02/04.md b/jon/02/04.md index e90f299a4..5b9b865c6 100644 --- a/jon/02/04.md +++ b/jon/02/04.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What did Jonah hope he might be able to do again? -Jonah hoped that he might be able to see Yahweh’s holy temple again. +Jonah hoped that he might be able to look toward Yahweh’s holy temple again. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/02/08.md b/jon/02/08.md index 5db9fd959..2a7d5b501 100644 --- a/jon/02/08.md +++ b/jon/02/08.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What happens to those who give attention to empty vanities? +# What did Jonah say happens to those who give attention to empty vanities? -Those who give attention to empty vanities forsake their covenant faithfulness. +Jonah said those who give attention to empty vanities forsake their covenant faithfulness. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/02/09.md b/jon/02/09.md index dd4d14aa0..6eb57a700 100644 --- a/jon/02/09.md +++ b/jon/02/09.md @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ -# What promise did Jonah make from the belly of the fish? +# When Jonah prayed in the belly of the fish what did he say that he would do? -Jonah promised to fulfill that which he had vowed. +Jonah said he would sacrifice to Yahweh with a voice of thanksgiving and fulfill what he had vowed. -# From whom did Jonah say salvation comes? -Jonah said that salvation comes from Yahweh. +# To whom did Jonah say salvation belongs? + +Jonah said that salvation belongs to Yahweh. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/02/10.md b/jon/02/10.md index 31c1af535..a37cd5c1f 100644 --- a/jon/02/10.md +++ b/jon/02/10.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What did Yahweh tell the fish to do? +# How did Yahweh respond to Jonah's prayer? -Yahweh told the fish to vomit out Jonah upon the dry land. +Yahweh spoke to the fish and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/03/02.md b/jon/03/02.md index eb6f62c5e..d4a2d6cae 100644 --- a/jon/03/02.md +++ b/jon/03/02.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What command did Yahweh give a second time to Jonah? +# What did Yahweh command Jonah to do for the second time? -Yahweh commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and speak Yahweh’s message. +Yahweh commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and speak Yahweh’s message. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/03/03.md b/jon/03/03.md index a631a3f71..97f57f5a4 100644 --- a/jon/03/03.md +++ b/jon/03/03.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# How did Jonah respond this time to Yahweh’s command? +# How did Jonah respond the second time Yahweh told him to go to Nineveh? -Jonah obeyed and went to Nineveh. +Jonah obeyed Yahweh and went to Nineveh. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/03/08.md b/jon/03/08.md index f5b83f9f1..fda80a8f4 100644 --- a/jon/03/08.md +++ b/jon/03/08.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # How did the Ninevites respond to Yahweh’s message that Jonah preached? -The Ninevites fasted and put on sackcloth, cried out to God, and turned from their evil ways. +The Ninevites believed God, fasted, and put on sackcloth. The king of Nineveh made a decree which said that no person or animal should eat or drink water and that each person and animal must be covered with sackcloth and that each person should cry out to God and stop doing evil deeds including violent acts. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/03/09.md b/jon/03/09.md index 986e27183..fce6116fb 100644 --- a/jon/03/09.md +++ b/jon/03/09.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What hope did the king of Nineveh still have for the people and the city? +# What hope did the king of Nineveh have for the people of Nineveh and the city? -The king of Nineveh still hoped that God might relent and turn away from his fierce anger. +The king of Nineveh hoped that God would turn back from his anger and have compassion on them so that the people of Nineveh would not perish. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/03/10.md b/jon/03/10.md index afc6608d9..0885ef0a7 100644 --- a/jon/03/10.md +++ b/jon/03/10.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# How did God respond to the Ninevites’ repentance? +# How did God respond to the Ninevites repentance? -God relented concerning the disaster which he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. +God saw their deeds, that they turned away from their evil ways. And God relented in regard to the evil that he had said he would do to them; and he did not do it. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/01.md b/jon/04/01.md index 234b3b17e..88ad4eb23 100644 --- a/jon/04/01.md +++ b/jon/04/01.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# Why was Jonah so angry? +# Why was Jonah angry? -It seemed evil to Jonah that Yahweh did not punish the Ninevites. +Jonah was angry because it seemed like a great evil to Jonah that Yahweh had mercy on the Ninevites and did not punish them. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/02.md b/jon/04/02.md index fb3467ac4..a3aa2106f 100644 --- a/jon/04/02.md +++ b/jon/04/02.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # Why did Jonah say that he had tried to flee to Tarshish? -Jonah said he knew Yahweh was a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness, and one who relents from sending disaster. +Jonah said that he had tried to flee to Tarshish because he knew that Yahweh was a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in covenant faithfulness, and one who relents from evil. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/03.md b/jon/04/03.md index ccf9a9803..46518b693 100644 --- a/jon/04/03.md +++ b/jon/04/03.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What did Jonah want Yahweh to do to him? +# What did Jonah ask Yahweh to do to him? -Jonah wanted Yahweh to take his life. +Jonah asked Yahweh to take his life. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/04.md b/jon/04/04.md index 1456de2e5..9fc991124 100644 --- a/jon/04/04.md +++ b/jon/04/04.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What question did Yahweh ask Jonah? -Yahweh asked Jonah if it was good for him to be angry. +Yahweh asked Jonah if it was right for Jonah to be angry. diff --git a/jon/04/05.md b/jon/04/05.md index 2c03124d2..963275ed7 100644 --- a/jon/04/05.md +++ b/jon/04/05.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# Why did Jonah go out of the city and sit down? +# Why did Jonah go out of the city and sit down facing the city? -Jonah wanted to see what might happen to the city. +Jonah wanted to see what would happen to the city of Nineveh. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/06.md b/jon/04/06.md index d9b25535a..7d67c7a59 100644 --- a/jon/04/06.md +++ b/jon/04/06.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What did Yahweh do for Jonah while he sat outside the city? -Yahweh first prepared a plant as shade for Jonah. +Yahweh caused a plant to grow up over Jonah to be a shade for his head. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/07.md b/jon/04/07.md index 231603ac8..a511720c9 100644 --- a/jon/04/07.md +++ b/jon/04/07.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ # What did Yahweh do to the plant that had provided shade for Jonah? -Yahweh sent a worm kill the plant. +God appointed a worm at the rising of the dawn of the next day; and it attacked the plant, and it withered. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/09.md b/jon/04/09.md index 175aa677e..e852b5e54 100644 --- a/jon/04/09.md +++ b/jon/04/09.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# What question did Yahweh then ask Jonah? +# What question did Yahweh ask Jonah after Yahweh caused the plant to wither and a hot east wind to blow on Jonah? -Yahweh asked Jonah if it was good to be angry about the plant. +Yahweh asked Jonah if it was right for him to be angry about the plant. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/10.md b/jon/04/10.md index 95305d4db..a965dfdc8 100644 --- a/jon/04/10.md +++ b/jon/04/10.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# How did Jonah feel about the plant that had given him shade? +# How did Jonah feel when the plant that had given him shade withered and died? -Jonah had compassion for the plant. +Jonah felt compassion for the plant that had withered and died. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/jon/04/11.md b/jon/04/11.md index 9a5bfc4fd..7df6312ee 100644 --- a/jon/04/11.md +++ b/jon/04/11.md @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -# For whom did Yahweh have compassion? +# For whom did Yahweh feel compassion? -Yahweh had compassion for both the people and the animals in Nineveh. +Yahweh felt compassion for the people and animals in Nineveh. \ No newline at end of file