Jonah 1:5

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Summary

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

Cried

And cast

Job 2:4

Acts 27:18

Philippians 3:7

The sides

1 Samuel 24:3

And was

General references

Psalm 107:28

Bible References

Cried

So the captain approached him, and told him, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Call on your gods! Maybe your god will think about us so we won't die!"

So they took the ox that was given to them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from early morning until noon. "Baal! Answer us!" they cried. But there was no response. Nobody answered. So they kept on dancing around the altar that they had made.

And the rest of it he makes into a god. To blocks of wood he bows down, worships, prays, and says, "Save me, since you are my god."

"Gather together and come; draw near and enter, your fugitives from the nations. Those who carry around their wooden idols know nothing, nor do those who keep praying to a god that cannot save.

"But where are your gods that you made for yourselves? Let them rise up, if they can deliver you in the time of your trouble. You have as many gods as you have towns, Judah.

They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.

And cast

Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health.

The next day, because we were being tossed so violently by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard.

But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah.

The sides

He came to the sheepfolds beside the road. There was a cave there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the inner recesses of the cave.

And was

So she enticed him to fall asleep on her lap, called for a man to shave off his seven locks of hair from his head, and so began to humiliate him. Then his strength abandoned him.

Since the groom was late, all of them became sleepy and lay down.

When he went back to the disciples, he found them asleep. He told Peter, "So, you men couldn't stay awake with me for one hour, could you?

When he got up from prayer, he went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.

General references

Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, the LORD brought them out of their distress.