Jonah 1

1Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,Cross-references: 2Ki 14:25 · Matt 12:39 · Matt 16:4 · Luke 11:29 · Luke 11:32

2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · Gen 18:20 · 2Ki 19:36 · Ezra 9:6 · Isa 58:1 · Jer 1:7 · +11 more

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.Cross-references: Gen 3:8 · Gen 4:16 · Ex 4:13 · Josh 19:46 · 1Ki 19:3 · 1Ki 19:9 · +20 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 10:13 · Ex 10:19 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:10 · Num 11:31 · Ps 107:23 · +4 more

5Then 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.Cross-references: Judg 16:19 · 1Sam 24:3 · 1Ki 18:26 · Job 2:4 · Isa 44:17 · Isa 45:20 · +13 more

6So the ship master 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.”Cross-references: 2Sam 12:22 · Esth 4:16 · Ps 78:34 · Ps 107:6 · Ps 107:12 · Ps 107:18 · +11 more

7They all said to each other, “Come! Let’s 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.Cross-references: Num 32:23 · Josh 7:10 · Josh 7:13 · Josh 22:16 · Judg 7:13 · Judg 20:9 · +12 more

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?”Cross-references: Gen 47:3 · Josh 7:19 · 1Sam 14:43 · 1Sam 30:13 · James 5:16

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.”Cross-references: Gen 14:13 · Gen 39:14 · 2Ki 17:25 · 2Ki 17:28 · 2Ki 17:32 · Ezra 1:2 · +19 more

10Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “What have you done?” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.Cross-references: Josh 7:25 · 2Sam 24:3 · Job 27:22 · Dan 5:6 · Jonah 1:3 · John 19:8

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.Cross-references: 1Sam 6:2 · 2Sam 21:1 · 2Sam 24:11 · Mic 6:6

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.”Cross-references: Josh 7:12 · Josh 7:20 · 2Sam 24:17 · 1Chr 21:17 · Eccl 9:18 · John 11:50 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: Job 34:29 · Prov 21:30

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.”Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Deut 21:8 · Ps 107:28 · Ps 115:3 · Ps 135:6 · Isa 26:16 · +7 more

15So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.Cross-references: Josh 7:24 · 2Sam 21:8 · Ps 65:7 · Ps 89:9 · Ps 93:3 · Ps 107:29 · +2 more

16Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh and made vows.Cross-references: Gen 8:20 · Gen 28:20 · Judg 13:16 · 2Ki 5:17 · Ps 50:14 · Ps 66:13 · +10 more

17Yahweh prepared a huge fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.Cross-references: Gen 1:21 · Ps 104:25 · Jonah 4:6 · Hab 3:2 · Matt 12:40 · Matt 16:4 · +1 more