“Jonah said to them.
‘I am a Hebrew.
I worship Yahweh,
The God of heaven,
Who made the sea.
He also made
The dry land.’”
Jonah responded to them that he was a Hebrew. He did not call himself an Israelite or a Judean. He worshiped Yahweh, the God of heaven and the creator of the sea and the land.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 