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Jonah 1

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📖 Jonah introduction

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1The word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ✦ 2“Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, because their wickedness has come up before Me.” ✦ 3But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship that was going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and boarded it to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord. ✦ 4However, the Lord hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea, so that the ship was about to break up. ✦ 5Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried out to his god, and they hurled the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for 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, call on your god! Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.” ✦ 7And each man said to his mate, “Come, let’s cast lots so that we may find out on whose account this catastrophe has struck us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. ✦ 8Then they said to him, “Tell us, now! On whose account has this catastrophe struck us? What is your occupation, and where do you come from? What is your country, and from what people are you?” ✦ 9So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.” ✦ 10Then the men became extremely afraid, and they said to him, “How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was fleeing 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 for 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 for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you.” ✦ 13However, the men rowed desperately to return to land, but they could not, because the sea was becoming even stormier against them. ✦ 14Then they cried out to the Lord 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 You, Lord, have done as You pleased.” ✦ 15So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging. ✦ 16Then the men became extremely afraid of the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows. ✦ 17And the Lord designated a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for three days and three nights. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 107 ·8Jonah 1 ·7Josh 7 ·7Acts 27 ·5Luke 11 ·31 Sam 14 ·3Matt 26 ·32 Kgs 17 ·3

Christ at the center

Three days in the belly of the fish is the sign Jesus gave of his own death and resurrection (Matt 12:40); and God's mercy on pagan Nineveh foreshadows the gospel going to the nations.

How Jonah 1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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