>>18699518The book of Jonah is about God commanding the Hebrews to respect gentiles.
Jonah is swallowed by the whale to bring him back after he refuses to preach to the scary (Aryan) Assyrians and runs away.
Later, God sends a vine to shade him from the hot east wind, a metaphor for how the warlike Assyrians save his ass from the even more savage tribes in Asia.