In Sefer Yona 3:4 why was it so easy to convince the city of Ninveh to do teshuva (5 words!) if they were so evil?
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because Yonah is metaphor. see here: parsha.blogspot.com/2005/10/… – josh waxman Aug 24 '12 at 0:35
I'm sure there are simpler and deeper answers, but if we go with the Midrash that the king of Nineveh was none other than the Pharaoh of Exodus -- yes, that guy who repeatedly ignored Moses' warnings, watched his empire unravel in a matter of months because of it, then eventually washed ashore from the Red Sea (the lone survivor) -- well, you'd understand why this time, when the prophet comes knocking, he's learned his lesson!
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1. can you cite the source for this idea? 2. from the pesukim it seems that the people starting doing teshuva before the king even found out. – user1668 Aug 23 '12 at 20:00
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1@ba could you be more specific? – user1668 Aug 23 '12 at 20:25
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1@user4951 it is a Midrash that is cited already in the comments. The Midrash says that he was washed up on the shores of Ninveh after surviving the splitting of the Yam Suf. – Dov Aug 7 at 16:47
