Jonah 1:3

But Jonah got up to run away from the presence of Yahweh and go to Tarshish. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and boarded the ship to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of Yahweh.

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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

2“Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against it, because their wickedness has risen up before me.”

4But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea and it became a mighty storm on the sea. Soon it appeared that the ship was going to be broken up.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:8They heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, so the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Exodus 4:13But Moses said, “Lord, please send anyone else, anyone whom you wish to send.”

1 Kings 19:3When Elijah heard that, he arose and fled for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

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

2 Chronicles 9:21The king had at sea a fleet of oceangoing ships, along with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet brought gold, silver, and ivory, as well as apes and baboons.

Job 2:7Then Satan went away from the presence of Yahweh. He struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his feet to 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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