Jonah 1:14
Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, “We beg you, LORD, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, LORD, have done as it pleased you.”
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.
Cross References
Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
Psalms 107:28Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
Psalms 135:6Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
Daniel 4:34At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.
Jonah 1:16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.
Acts 28:4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:12-17
The Prophet Confesses His Folly; The Prophet Reads His Own Doom; The Prophet Cast into the Sea; Jonah's Preservation in the Fish's Belly. ( b. c. 840.) 11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. 12 And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. 13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they… Read the whole commentary →