But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
"And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish ..." Joppa was about the only seaport that Israel ever had until Herod built Caesarea Philippi hundreds of years after Jonah.  Jonah might have been surprised to find ready transportation available for the very place to which he had decided to flee.  Satan always provides transportation for the soul running away from the Lord.  And, as Spurgeon once said, "Evil also has its mysterious providences, and it is not always right to do what seems to be convenient."