Jonah 1:16
Then did the men revere Yahweh with a great reverence,—and offered sacrifice to Yahweh, and vowed vows.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
In Context
15So they took up Jonah and hurled him into the sea,—and the sea, left off, her roaring.
Cross References
Genesis 8:20And Noah builded an altar to Yahweh,—and took of all the clean beasts and of all the clean birds, and caused ascending Sacrifices to go up on the altar.
Judges 13:16But the messenger of Yahweh said unto Manoah—Though thou detain me, yet will I not eat of thy food, and, though thou make ready an ascending-sacrifice, unto Yahweh, must thou cause it to ascend. For Manoah had not discerned that, the angel of Yahweh, he was.
Job 37:24Therefore, do men revere him, He will not regard any who are wise in heart.
Psalms 66:13I will enter thy house with ascending-sacrifices, I will pay unto thee my vows,
Psalms 116:14My vows—to Yahweh, will I pay, Might it be in presence of all his people!
Isaiah 26:9With my soul, longed I for thee in the night, Yea with my spirit within me, I kept on searching for thee,—For, when thy regulations [extend] to the earth, The inhabitants of the world will have learned, righteousness.
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 →