How many times did Hashem's speak to Yonah?
Yevamos 98a #1: "Shenis" - He did not speak to him a third time. Even though it says "Hu Heshiv Es Gevul Yisrael? ki'Dvar Hashem? b'Yad Avdo Yonah ben Amitai ha'Navi" (Melachim II, 14:25), it means that just like Ninveh was reversed from evil to good, also in the days of Yarav'am ben Yo'ash, Yisrael reversed from evil to good. Malbim ? Mahari proved so from Seder Olam. Yonah anointed Yehu 1 in the year 3062, and he lived until Zecharyah reigned in the year 3164. He lived 102 years from when he began prophesizing, and we do not find that he had another prophecy. This proves that prophecy left him! This was proper, for he despised Nevu'ah and did not want to fulfill Devar Hashem 2 .
Radak (1:1, based on Yevamos 98a #2): He spoke only twice with him about Ninveh, but he also prophesized about other matters - "Hu Heshiv? ki'Dvar Hashem? b'Yad Avdo Yonah." However, that Nevu'ah is not written.
Hashem told Eliyahu to anoint Elisha (Melachim I, 19:16). Malbim (ibid.) - since Achav repented, the decree was delayed, therefore Yehu was anointed via Elisha after Eliyahu left the world. Elisha told "l'Echad mi'Bnei ha'Nevi'im" to anoint Yehu (Melachim II, 9:1-2). (Perhaps Elisha did so via Yonah, who was the widow's son that Eliyahu revived (Yerushalmi Sukah 5:1), so it would be considered that Eliyahu anointed him. ? PF)
Malbim: Mahari contradicts what he says later, that Yonah prophesized about Ninveh six years before Shomron was destroyed in the days of Hoshe'a ben Elah. If so, his Nevu'os spanned (above the 102 years until Zecharyah) 10 years of Menachem ben Gadi, two of his son Pekachyah, 20 of Pekach, and three of Hoshe'a ? 137 years in all! Also, Ninveh was at the end of Yonah's life ? what is the proof that Hashem did not speak with him beforehand? Then he did not refuse Shelichus! Also, in Nachum it says that Shomron was destroyed 40 years after Yonah's Nevu'ah about Ninveh! Ninveh was destroyed 80 years after Shomron, in the fourth year of Yehoyakim!
