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  "generated_at": "2026-05-11T03:25:14Z",
  "testament": "Old Testament",
  "book": "Jonah",
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  "summary": "Jonah confronts prophetic reluctance and displays the LORD’s sovereign mercy toward repentant outsiders.",
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      "passage_ref": "Jonah 1:1-17",
      "title": "Jonah flees and is hurled into the sea",
      "main_point": "The Lord commands Jonah to preach judgment to Nineveh, but Jonah flees in open rebellion. God pursues him with sovereign power over the sea, exposes his sin, spares the sailors, and preserves Jonah through the great fish.",
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      "passage_ref": "Jonah 2:1-10",
      "title": "Jonah's prayer from the fish",
      "main_point": "From the depths of the sea, Jonah cries to the Lord and confesses that rescue belongs to God alone. His prayer reveals both God’s judgment on rebellion and God’s mercy in preserving and restoring his servant.",
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      "passage_ref": "Jonah 3:1-10",
      "title": "Nineveh repents",
      "main_point": "God graciously sends Jonah again to Nineveh, and the city responds to God’s warning with humble, public repentance. When God sees that they turn from evil and violence, he relents from the announced judgment and shows mercy.",
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      "custom_id": "JON_004",
      "passage_ref": "Jonah 4:1-11",
      "title": "Jonah's anger and Yahweh's lesson",
      "main_point": "Jonah is angry because God has shown mercy to Nineveh, but Yahweh patiently exposes how wrong Jonah’s heart has become. If Jonah can care so deeply about a plant he did not make, God has far greater right to care about a great city full of morally needy people, and even its animals.",
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