1
Yonah was remembered as coming from a district near the sea, close to Ashdod. After his mission to Nineweh and his return from the sea, the memorial says he removed himself from his homeland because the city's repentance had made his announced destruction appear unfulfilled.
2
He and his mother are then placed for a time in the region of Tsor. A later popular strand connects Yonah's household with the widow aided by Eliyahu; this identification is transmitted as tradition, not as a controlling reading of Melakhim.
3
After the famine, Yonah returned toward Yehudah. His mother died on the journey and was buried near the oak associated with Devorah. Yonah later settled in the region of Se’ir, died there, and was buried in an ancestral tomb remembered with the Kenizzi line.
4
His memorial sign to Yerushalayim concerned a stone crying out in distress and the gathering of nations against the city. The sign is preserved as an apocalyptic memorial layer.