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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 Amplified Bible</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" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">AMP</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/jonah/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Jonah’s Disobedience</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the word of the LORD came to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Go to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim [judgment] against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But Jonah ran away to Tarshish to escape from the presence of the LORD [and his duty as His prophet]. He went down to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Joppa and found a ship going to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>Tarshish [the most remote of the Phoenician trading cities]. So he paid the fare and went down into the ship to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the LORD. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But the LORD hurled a great wind toward the sea, and there was a violent tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to break up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then the sailors were afraid, and each man cried out to his god; and to lighten the ship [and diminish the danger] they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was sound asleep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So the captain came up to him and said, “How can you stay asleep? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your god will give a thought to us so that we will not perish.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And they said to another, “Come, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[e]</a></span>let us cast lots, so we may learn who is to blame for this disaster.” So they cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then they said to him, “Now tell us! <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[f]</a></span>Who is to blame for this disaster? What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I [reverently] fear <i>and</i> worship the LORD, the God of heaven, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[g]</a></span>who made the sea and the dry land.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the men became extremely frightened and said to him, “How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was running from the presence of the LORD, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[h]</a></span>because he had told them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then they said to him, “What should we do to you, so that the sea will become calm for us?”--for the sea was becoming more and more violent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jonah said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will become calm for you, for I know that it is because of me that this great storm <i>has come</i> upon you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Nevertheless, the men rowed hard [breaking through the waves] to return to land, but they could not, because the sea became even more violent [surging higher] against them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then they called on the LORD and said, “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish because of taking this man’s life, and do not make us accountable for innocent blood; for You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then the men greatly feared the LORD, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jonah/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now the LORD had prepared (appointed, destined) a great <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[i]</a></span>fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the stomach of the fish <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[j]</a></span>three days and three nights.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Jonah, the only prophet known to attempt to run away from a divinely appointed mission, lived during the time when Jeroboam II ruled Israel (the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom). He was from the town of Gath-Hepher in Galilee.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> The city of Nineveh was the magnificent capital of the Assyrian Empire. The great palace of Sennacherib was without rival and contained seventy or more rooms. The city was home to more than 120,000 residents (at least twice the size of Babylon) and had no less than fifteen gates in the wall surrounding the city. During this period of time it was probably the largest city in the known world. Built near the juncture of the Tigris River and its tributary the Khoser, it was served by an elaborate water system of eighteen canals. Nineveh had many suburbs, three are mentioned along with Nineveh in Gen 10:11, 12. Nineveh’s extensive ruins are located near the modern city of Mosul, Iraq.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> The natural harbor of the city of Joppa (modern Jaffa, Israel) has been in use since the Bronze Age. It was the port of entry for the cedars of Lebanon for Solomon’s temple (2 Chr 2:16), and again for the second temple of Jerusalem (Ezra 3:7). It is located just south of Tel Aviv.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Possibly Tartessos in southwest Spain.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[e]</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> To these sailors, who undoubtedly believed in their own pagan gods, the casting of lots was a way to allow the gods to express themselves since only they could control how a lot fell. In this case, it is possible that God intervened to identify Jonah as the guilty party.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[f]</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> The questions asked indicate that the sailors were afraid of Jonah even before he confessed his worship of the LORD (v 9). The lot had already confirmed that he was responsible, but instead of acting on that they gave him the option of blaming someone else. The other questions are typical of what one would ask any stranger.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[g]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> This was an important addition to Jonah’s description of God, because most people who believed in pagan gods had different deities for different regions of the created world, and often they also worshiped deities of their own localities. Jonah was affirming that there is only one true God.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[h]</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Jonah probably had informed them when he first boarded (cf v 3) but they may not have taken him seriously, or perhaps they were just indifferent to his reason for the voyage. Now that they were in mortal danger, they believed him.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[i]</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> The ancient Hebrew term “fish” did not make a distinction between fish and marine mammals. There are no marine creatures known today which would be capable of swallowing a man, either because of their anatomy or because of their observed behavior. 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