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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Jonah 1 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jonah/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jonah/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Jonah 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../obadiah/1.htm" title="Obadiah 1">◄</a> Jonah 1 <a href="../jonah/2.htm" title="Jonah 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/jonah/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jonah Flees the Presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah">a</a></sup></span> has come up before me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”</p> <p class="heading">Jonah Is Thrown into the Sea</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, because he had told them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Nevertheless, the men rowed hard<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the men dug in [their oars]">b</a></sup></span> to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore they called out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, have done as it pleased you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the men feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and made vows.</p> <p class="heading">A Great Fish Swallows Jonah</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jonah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 2:1 in Hebrew">c</a></sup></span> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appointed<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or had appointed">d</a></sup></span> a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> The same Hebrew word can mean <i class="catch-word">evil</i> or <i>disaster</i>, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">the men</span> dug in</i> [their oars]<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Ch 2:1 in Hebrew<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Or <i>had appointed</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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