Jonah 1:12-17

Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea

12 He said to them, "Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, q for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you." 13 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard 1 to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. 14 Therefore they called out to the Lord, "O Lord, let us not perish for this man's life, and r lay not on us innocent blood, s for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you." 15 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, t and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, u and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord v and made vows.

A Great Fish Swallows Jonah

17 2 And the Lord appointed 3 a great fish to swallow up Jonah. w And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

  1. Cross References
    Joshua 7:20
    And Achan answered Joshua, "Truly I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did:
  2. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 21:8
    Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 115:3
    Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 65:7
    Who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.
    Luke 8:24
    And they went and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 8:20
    Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
    Genesis 31:54
    And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
  6. Cross References
    Jonah 2:9
    But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!
  7. Cross References
    Matthew 12:40
    For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
    Matthew 16:4
    An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah." So he left them and departed.
    Luke 11:30
    For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
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