Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Jonah disobeyed God, and this led to the near-death experience of being thrown into the sea and swallowed by a fish. But when he repented, as he was about to ask the citizens of Nineveh to do, and was obedient to God, then he discovered life for himself, and for the people of Nineveh. Renewal and regeneration came when he did the hard work of being obedient to the Lord.
