Jonah 1:15

World English Bible (2000)

So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

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  • Ps 107:29 : 29 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
  • Luke 8:24 : 24 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Matt 8:26 : 26 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
  • Josh 7:24-26 : 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 26 They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
  • 2 Sam 21:8-9 : 8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. 9 He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
  • Ps 65:7 : 7 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
  • Ps 89:9 : 9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

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  • Jonah 1:10-14
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    10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.

    11 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.

    12 He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great storm is on you."

    13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy against them.

    14 Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, "We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don't let us die for this man's life, and don't lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."

  • Jonah 1:1-8
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    1 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

    2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

    3 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.

    4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

    5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

    6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."

    7 They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

    8 Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"

  • Jonah 1:16-17
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    16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

    17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

  • Jonah 2:10
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    10 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

  • Ps 107:28-30
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    28 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

    29 He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

    30 Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

  • Jonah 2:1
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    1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.

  • Matt 14:32
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    32 When they got up into the boat, the wind ceased.

  • Exod 15:10
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    10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • Jonah 4:1-2
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    1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

    2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

  • Ps 107:24-26
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    24 These see Yahweh's works, and his wonders in the deep.

    25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

    26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

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    39 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

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    18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.

  • Luke 8:23-24
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    23 But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.

    24 They came to him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.

  • Acts 27:17-18
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    17 After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

    18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

  • Matt 8:26
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    26 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

  • Mark 4:37
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    37 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

  • Acts 27:40-41
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    40 Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

    41 But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

  • Matt 8:24
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    24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

  • Jonah 4:8
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    8 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

  • Jonah 2:3
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    3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

  • Acts 27:38
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    38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

  • Luke 5:6
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    6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

  • Hab 1:15
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    15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

  • Ps 89:9
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    9 You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

  • Exod 15:5
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    5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

  • Mark 4:41
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    41 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"

  • Hab 1:17
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    17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the nations without mercy?

  • Ps 65:7
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    7 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

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    11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

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    4 Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?"