Jonah 1:6

Then the captain went down to where Jonah was sleeping soundly. He awoke him and said to him, “◄How can you sleep during a storm like this?/You should not be sleeping during a storm like this► [RHQ]! Get up and pray to your god! Perhaps he will pity us and save us, in order that we will not drown!” But Jonah refused to do that.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

In Context

5The sailors were very frightened. Because of that, they each started to pray to their own gods to save them. Then they threw the cargo into the sea to make the ship lighter in order that it would not sink easily.

7Then the sailors said to each other, “We need to ◄cast lots/shake from a container small objects that we have all marked►, to determine who has caused all this trouble!” So they did that, and the object with Jonah’s mark fell out of the container.

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Cross References

Esther 4:16“Gather together all the Jews here in Susa, and tell them to ◄fast/abstain from food► for my sake. Tell them to not eat or drink anything for three days and nights. My maids and I will also fast. Then, I will go to talk to the king. Even if ◄I am executed/they execute me► for disobeying the law by seeing him when he does not hold out the scepter/staff toward me, I am willing for that to happen”.

Psalms 107:6When they were in trouble, they called out to Yahweh, and he rescued them from ◄being distressed/their difficulties►.

Psalms 107:18They did not want to eat any food, and they almost died.

Isaiah 3:15You should stop [RHQ] crushing my people! It is as though you are pushing the faces of poor people into the dirt!” That is what the Commander of the armies of angels says.

Ezekiel 18:2“You people quote [RHQ] this proverb and say that it is about Israel: ‘Parents/People eat sour grapes, but it is their children who have a very sour taste in their mouths', which means that you think that it is not fair for you to be punished for your ancestors’ sins.

Amos 5:15Love what is good, and hate what is evil! Try to cause judges in your courts to make decisions that are right/fair! If you do those things, perhaps the Commander of the armies of angels will act mercifully toward you descendants of Joseph who are still alive.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:5-11

The Prophet in the Storm; The Prophet Convicted by the Lot. ( b. c. 840.) 4 But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken. 5 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. 6 So the ship-master came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O… Read the whole commentary →

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