Jonah 1:4

But 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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In The King James Version

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 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.

5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

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Cross References

Exodus 10:19The Lord turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Exodus 15:10You blew with your wind.The sea covered them.They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Psalms 107:23Those who go down to the sea in ships,who do business in great waters;

Psalms 135:7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth;who makes lightnings with the rain;who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

Amos 4:13For, behold, he who forms the mountains,and creates the wind,and declares to man what is his thought;who makes the morning darkness,and treads on the high places of the Earth:The Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name."

Acts 27:13When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to 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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