Jonah 1:3

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of LORD. And he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare of it, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of LORD

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In The King James Version

But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

In Context

2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.

4But LORD sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

Exodus 4:13And he said, Oh, LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou will send.

1 Kings 19:3And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life. And he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

2 Chronicles 2:15Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants.

2 Chronicles 9:21For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

Job 2:7So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:2-4

Jonah This book of Jonah, though it be placed here in the midst of the prophetical books of scripture, is yet rather a history than a prophecy; one line of prediction there is in it, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown; the rest of the book is a narrative of the preface to and the consequences of that prediction. In the midst of the obscure prophecies before and after this book, wherein are many things dark and hard to be understood, which are puzzling to the learned, and are strong meat for strong… Read the whole commentary →

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