--- title: Daniel, Jonah and the prophets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Daniel, Jonah and the prophets», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Daniel, Jonah and the prophets # Daniel, Jonah and the prophets Lesson 10 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/0/) — Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/1/) — Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow to a golden statue and walked unharmed in the fiery furnace; Daniel kept praying despite a law against it and was kept safe in the lions' den, and he read the writing on the wall that warned a proud king his kingdom would end. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/2/) — Jonah was sent to warn Nineveh but ran away on a ship; thrown into the sea, he was swallowed by a great fish, and when he finally preached, the whole city said sorry and God spared it, which made Jonah angry; God then taught him with a plant to care for a city of people more than for a plant. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/3/) — The prophet Isaiah dreamed of a world where the wolf lives with the lamb and swords are beaten into ploughshares. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/4/) — For a child today these stories mean: you can be respectful where you live and still stay true to your faith, God gives second chances even to people we dislike, and speaking up for those treated unfairly is a calling. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/5/) — Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word, warned against injustice and gave hope. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/6/) — Daniel and his friends, captives in Babylon, kept God's food laws and stayed healthy on vegetables and water. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/7/) — Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow to a golden statue and said they would stay faithful even if God did not rescue them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/8/) — The three friends were thrown into a fiery furnace but were not burnt. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/9/) — Daniel kept praying to God three times a day despite a law forbidding it, was thrown to the lions and was kept safe. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/10/) — At King Belshazzar's feast a hand wrote on the palace wall, and Daniel explained that the king's kingdom would end; «the writing on the wall» now means a clear warning. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/11/) — God sent Jonah to warn the city of Nineveh, but Jonah ran away on a ship going the other way. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/12/) — In a storm Jonah was thrown overboard, swallowed by a great fish and spat out on land after three days. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/13/) — Jonah preached, the whole city of Nineveh repented, and God spared it; Jonah was angry about this. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/14/) — God gave Jonah a plant for shade and let it die, to teach him to care for a city of people more than for a plant; the book ends with God's question to Jonah, left for every reader to answer. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/15/) — Christians differ on whether to read Jonah as history or as a teaching story; this is disputed. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/16/) — Isaiah foresaw a peaceable kingdom where the wolf lives with the lamb and swords are beaten into ploughshares, the blades of ploughs: weapons turned into tools for farming. - ← previous: [King David and King Solomon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/) - next →: [Psalms and Proverbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)