Jonah 1:3

And Jonah got up to go in flight to Tarshish, away from the Lord; and he went down to Joppa, and saw there a ship going to Tarshish: so he gave them the price of the journey and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the 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

2Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.

4And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:8And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

Exodus 4:13And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.

1 Kings 19:3And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

2 Chronicles 2:15So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

2 Chronicles 9:21For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.

Job 2:7And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

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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