Jonah 1:9

Jonah confesses that he fears Yahweh, the Maker of sea and dry land. It matters because he rightly names the Creator whose authority he had been foolishly trying to escape.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 146:5–6Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
• Ps 136:26Give thanks to the God of heaven! His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 95:5–6The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
• Neh 9:6You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.
• Neh 1:4When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
• Gen 14:13Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
• Neh 2:4“What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven
• Job 1:9Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
• Dan 2:18–19urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
• Dan 2:44In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, but will itself stand forever.
• Hos 3:5Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.
• Acts 17:23–25For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
• Acts 27:23For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
• Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.
• Phil 3:5circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
• Gen 39:14she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
• Rev 15:4Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”
• Rev 16:11and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores; yet they did not repent of their deeds.
• 2 Kgs 17:28Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
• Rev 11:13And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• 2 Kgs 17:25Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
• 2 Kgs 17:32–35So the new residents worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed for themselves priests of all sorts to serve in the shrines of the high places.
• Ezra 7:12–13Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
• Ezra 1:2“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.
• Ezra 5:11And this is the answer they returned: “We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.

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