(Jonah 1-4, Old Testament) He wished for the people of Nineveh to die because they didn't turn to god. So Jonah decided to flee from the city where God had sent him and caught a ship for the city called Tarshish. The Lord saw Jonah on the ship and he sent a great storm upon the sea, so that the ship seemed as though it would sink because if the storm. Jonah ordered the sailors to throw him overboard, because he knew that the storm was happening because he didn’t obey the lord. The sailors asked why have you brought all this trouble upon us?”. Jonah told them the whole story, how he came from the land of Israel, and that he had fled away from the Lord. Jonah then said "Take me up and throw me into the sea then the storm will cease and the waters will be calm; The sailors threw him overboard and everything else on the ship and when they could do no more, every man prayed to his god to save the ship and