Jonah 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Acts 27:18-19 : 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.
  • Acts 27:38 : 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
  • 1 Kgs 18:26 : 26 They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any who answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.
  • Job 2:4 : 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
  • Isa 44:17-20 : 17 The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, "Deliver me; for you are my god!" 18 They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand. 19 No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?" 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
  • Isa 45:20 : 20 "Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.
  • Jer 2:28 : 28 "But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 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."
  • Jonah 1:14 : 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 1:16 : 16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.
  • Matt 25:5 : 5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Matt 26:43 : 43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
  • Matt 26:45 : 45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
  • Luke 22:45-46 : 45 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, 46 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
  • Phil 3:7-8 : 7 However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
  • Judg 16:19 : 19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
  • 1 Sam 24:3 : 3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.

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  • Jonah 1:6-17
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    6So 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."

    7They 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.

    8Then 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?"

    9He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."

    10Then 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.

    11Then 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.

    12He 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."

    13Nevertheless 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.

    14Therefore 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."

    15So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

    16Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

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

  • Jonah 1:1-4
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    1Now 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."

    3But 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.

    4But 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.

  • Matt 8:24-26
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    24Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

    25They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"

    26He 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 4:37-38
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    37A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled.

    38He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"

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

    2He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

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

    24They 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 27:29-30
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    29Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

    30As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

  • Acts 27:17-19
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    17After 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.

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

    19On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

  • Jonah 4:8
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    8It 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 2:10
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    10Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

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

    2He 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.

  • Acts 27:38-41
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    38When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

    39When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

    40Casting 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.

    41But 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.

  • Jonah 4:5
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    5Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

  • Ezek 27:29
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    29All who handled the oar, the mariners, [and] all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships; they shall stand on the land,

  • Ps 107:23
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    23Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

  • John 6:19
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    19When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

  • Acts 27:27
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    27But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

  • Jonah 3:4-5
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    4Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"

    5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

  • Ps 107:26
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    26They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

  • Matt 14:24
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    24But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

  • Luke 5:7
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    7They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

  • Acts 27:15
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    15When the ship was caught, and couldn't face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.