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Jonah 1

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📖 Jonah introduction

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1Now Yahweh’s word 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. ✦ 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. ✦ 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.” ✦ 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. ✦

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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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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Jonah 1David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JonahMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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