Jonah 1:3

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

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

4But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

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Cross References

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

Exodus 4:13Moses said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

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

2 Chronicles 2:15“Now therefore, the wheat, 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 Huram’s servants. Once every three years, the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot 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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