Jonah 1:4

But 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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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.

In Context

3But 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.

5Then the sailors became very afraid and each man cried out to his own god. They threw the ship's cargo into the sea to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was lying there deeply asleep.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:19Yahweh brought a very strong west wind that picked up the locusts and drove them into the Sea of Reeds; not a single locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

Exodus 15:10But you blew with your wind, and the sea covered them; 1 they sank like lead in the mighty waters. 1

Psalms 107:23Some travel on the sea in ships 1 and do business overseas. 1

Psalms 135:7He brings the clouds from far away, 1 making lightning bolts accompany the rain 1 and bringing the wind out of his storehouse. 1

Amos 4:13For, look, he who forms the mountains 1 also creates the wind, 1 reveals his thoughts to mankind, 1 makes the morning darkness, 1 and treads on the high places of the earth. 1 Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name.”

Acts 27:13When the south wind began to blow gently, the sailors thought that they had what they needed. So they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore.

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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