Upon hearing a warning from Jonah, a king of this city instructs its inhabitants to not eat or drink and covers himself with sackcloth. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city, which God instructs Jonah to go to so he can preach against its wicked inhabitants. Instead, Jonah flees from God and goes to Tarshish.
ANSWER: Nineveh
[10e] On his way to Tarshish, Jonah is thrown overboard by his shipmates and spends three days and three nights in the belly of this kind of creature.
ANSWER: whale [or fish; or dag gadol]
[10h] God justifies his concern for the people of Nineveh to Jonah by stating that they cannot tell the difference between these two things.
ANSWER: hands [accept their left and their right hands; accept equivalents indicating their two hands; prompt on left and right; prompt on directions; accept right and wrong]
<Benjamin Chapman, RMP - Hebrew Bible> ~20446~ <Editor: Athena Kern>