Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.
New American Standard Bible
So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the sea, and the sea
King James Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
Holman Bible
Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.
International Standard Version
So they picked up Jonah and tossed him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
A Conservative Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
American Standard Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
Amplified
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.
Darby Translation
And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will lift up Jonah and cast him down into the sea: and the sea will stand from its foam.
King James 2000
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.
Modern King James verseion
And they lifted Jonah up and threw him out into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And then they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea left raging.
NET Bible
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
New Heart English Bible
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
The Emphasized Bible
So they took up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, - and the sea, left off, her roaring.
Webster
So they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
World English Bible
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;
Themes
Jonah » The reluctant missionary » Overtaken in his flight
Jonah » Disobedience and punishment of
Miracles » Catalogue of » The deliverance » The sea was calmed when jonah was thrown into it
Power » Divine power over nature exhibited by Christ, general examples of » The tempest stilled
Superstition » Instances of » The sailors who threw jonah into the sea
Wind » Miracles connected with » Calmed by casting out jonah
Topics
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jonah 1:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jonah Disobeys Yahweh
14 So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you. 15 So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry. 16 Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.
Cross References
Psalm 107:29
He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.
Luke 8:24
Then they came to him and, awaking him out of his sleep, said, Master, Master, destruction is near. And he, when he was awake, gave orders to the wind and the rolling waves, and the storm came to an end, and all was calm.
Psalm 93:3-4
The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.
Joshua 7:24-26
Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.
2 Samuel 21:8-9
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
Psalm 65:7
Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.
Psalm 89:9
You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.
Matthew 8:26
And he said to them, Why are you full of fear, O you of little faith? Then he got up and gave orders to the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.