Jonah vs Nahum

Jonah son of Amittai was an Israelite prophet from Gath-hepher in Zebulun (2 Kings 14:25) who, according to the book bearing his name, was called by God to preach repentance to the Assyrian city of Nineveh. Fleeing instead by ship toward Tarshish, he was thrown overboard in a storm and swallowed by a great fish, from whose belly he prayed …

Nahum was a prophet from Elkosh whose single book announces the imminent fall of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire, probably composed around 650–612 BC. His name means 'consolation' or 'comfort'—ironic comfort for Judah, since the destruction of Nineveh meant relief from Assyrian oppression. The book opens with a magnificent theophanic poem celebrating God as a divine warrior who …