MARINERS (SAILORS)

Passages on this topic · 41

• 1 Kings 9:27

  Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 8:18

  Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

• Psalms 107:23

  Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters;

• Psalms 107:24

  These see Yahweh’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep.

• Psalms 107:25

  For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

• Psalms 107:26

  They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

• Psalms 107:27

  They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

• Psalms 107:28

  Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

• Psalms 107:29

  He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

• Psalms 107:30

  Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

• Isaiah 42:10

  Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.

• Ezekiel 27:27

  Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is among you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

• Jonah 1:5

  Then 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.

• Acts 27:17

  After they had hoisted it up, they used cables to help reinforce the ship. Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.

• Acts 27:18

  As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

• Acts 27:19

  On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

• Acts 27:20

  When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.

• Acts 27:21

  When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.

• Acts 27:22

  Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

• Acts 27:23

  For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

• Acts 27:24

  saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

• Acts 27:25

  Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

• Acts 27:26

  But we must run aground on a certain island.”

• Acts 27:27

  But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

• Acts 27:28

  They took soundings, and found twenty fathoms. After a little while, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.

• Acts 27:29

  Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.

• Acts 27:30

  As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

• Acts 27:31

  Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”

• Acts 27:32

  Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let it fall off.

• Acts 27:33

  While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

• Acts 27:34

  Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

• Acts 27:35

  When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.

• Acts 27:36

  Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

• Acts 27:37

  In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

• Acts 27:38

  When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

• Acts 27:39

  When it was day, they didn’t recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

• Acts 27:40

  Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

• Acts 27:41

  But coming to a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground. The bow struck and remained immovable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

• Acts 27:42

  The soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim out and escape.

• Acts 27:43

  But the centurion, desiring to save Paul, stopped them from their purpose, and commanded that those who could swim should throw themselves overboard first to go toward the land;

• Acts 27:44

  and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.