New American Standard Bible 2020

Jonah 1

Jonah’s Disobedience

1The word of the Lord came to 1Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2“Arise, go to 2Nineveh, the great city, and 3cry out against it, because their 4wickedness has come up before Me.” 3But Jonah got up to flee to 5Tarshish 6from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to 7Joppa, found a ship that was going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and 8boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord.

4However, the 9Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea, so that the ship was about to 10break up. 5Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried out to 11his 12god, and they 13hurled the 14cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it 15for them. But Jonah had gone below into the stern of the ship, had lain down, and fallen sound asleep. 6So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, 16call on your god! Perhaps your 17god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

7And each man said to his mate, “Come, let’s 18cast lots so that we may 19find out on whose account this catastrophe has struck us.” So they cast lots, and the 20lot fell on Jonah. 8Then they said to him, “21Tell us, now! On whose account has this catastrophe struck us? What is your 22occupation, and where do you come from? What is your country, and from what people are you?” 9So he said to them, “I am a 23Hebrew, and I 24fear the Lord 25God of heaven who 26made the sea and the dry land.”

10Then the men became extremely afraid, and they said to him, “27How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was 28fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. 11So they said to him, “What should we do to you so that the sea will become calm 29for us?”--for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy. 12And he said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea. Then the sea will become calm 30for you, because I know that 31on account of me this great storm has come upon you.” 13However, the men 32rowed desperately to return to land, but they could not, because the sea was becoming even stormier against them. 14Then they cried out to the 33Lord and said, “We earnestly pray, O Lord, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life, and do not put innocent blood on us; for 34You, Lord, have done as You pleased.”

15So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea 35stopped its raging. 16Then the men became extremely afraid of the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made 36vows.

17 37And the Lord designated a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the 38stomach of the fish for three days and three nights.

Notes

1. Jonah 1:1 2 Kin 14:25; Matt 12:39-41; 16:4; Luke 11:29, 30, 32 ↩
2. Jonah 1:2 Gen 10:11; 2 Kin 19:36; Is 37:37; Nah 1:1; Zeph 2:13 ↩
3. Jonah 1:2 Is 58:1 ↩
4. Jonah 1:2 Gen 18:20; Hos 7:2 ↩
5. Jonah 1:3 Is 23:1, 6, 10; Jer 10:9 ↩
6. Jonah 1:3 Gen 4:16; Ps 139:7, 9, 10 ↩
7. Jonah 1:3 Josh 19:46; 2 Chr 2:16; Ezra 3:7; Acts 9:36, 43 ↩
8. Jonah 1:3 Lit went down in ↩
9. Jonah 1:4 Ps 107:23-28; 135:6, 7 ↩
10. Jonah 1:4 Lit be broken ↩
11. Jonah 1:5 1 Kin 18:26 ↩
12. Jonah 1:5 Or gods ↩
13. Jonah 1:5 Acts 27:18, 19, 38 ↩
14. Jonah 1:5 Lit vessels ↩
15. Jonah 1:5 Lit from upon them ↩
16. Jonah 1:6 Ps 107:28 ↩
17. Jonah 1:6 2 Sam 12:22; Amos 5:15; Jon 3:9 ↩
18. Jonah 1:7 Josh 7:14-18; 1 Sam 10:20, 21; 14:41, 42; Acts 1:23-26 ↩
19. Jonah 1:7 Lit know ↩
20. Jonah 1:7 Num 32:23; Prov 16:33 ↩
21. Jonah 1:8 Josh 7:19; 1 Sam 14:43 ↩
22. Jonah 1:8 Gen 47:3; 1 Sam 30:13 ↩
23. Jonah 1:9 Gen 14:13; Ex 1:15; 2:13 ↩
24. Jonah 1:9 2 Kin 17:25, 28, 32, 33 ↩
25. Jonah 1:9 Ezra 1:2; Neh 1:4; Ps 136:26; Dan 2:18 ↩
26. Jonah 1:9 Neh 9:6; Ps 95:5; 146:6 ↩
27. Jonah 1:10 Lit What is this you have done ↩
28. Jonah 1:10 Job 27:22; Jon 1:3 ↩
29. Jonah 1:11 Lit from upon us ↩
30. Jonah 1:12 Lit from upon you ↩
31. Jonah 1:12 2 Sam 24:17; 1 Chr 21:17 ↩
32. Jonah 1:13 Lit dug their oars into the water ↩
33. Jonah 1:14 Ps 107:28; Jon 1:16 ↩
34. Jonah 1:14 Ps 115:3; 135:6; Dan 4:34, 35 ↩
35. Jonah 1:15 Ps 65:7; 93:3, 4; 107:29 ↩
36. Jonah 1:16 Ps 50:14; 66:13, 14 ↩
37. Jonah 1:17 Ch 2:1 in Heb ↩
38. Jonah 1:17 Matt 12:40; 16:4 ↩

Jonah’s Disobedience

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