Jonah 1:5

Good News Translation

The sailors were terrified and cried out for help, each one to his own god. Then, in order to lessen the danger, they threw the cargo overboard. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone below and was lying in the ship's hold, sound asleep.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:26

They took the bull that was brought to them, prepared it, and prayed to Baal until noon. They shouted, “Answer us, Baal!” and kept dancing around the altar they had built. But no answer came.

Job 2:4

Satan replied, “A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.

Psalm 107:25

He commanded, and a mighty wind began to blow and stirred up the waves.

Psalm 148:8

lightning and hail, snow and clouds, strong winds that obey his command.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

He sets the time for finding and the time for losing, the time for saving and the time for throwing away,

Isaiah 45:20

The Lord says, “Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them— those people know nothing at all!

Jeremiah 2:28

“Where are the gods that you made for yourselves? When you are in trouble, let them save you—if they can! Judah, you have as many gods as you have cities.

Hosea 7:14

They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are!

Jonah 1:14

So they cried out to the Lord, “O Lord, we pray, don't punish us with death for taking this man's life! You, O Lord, are responsible for all this; it is your doing.”

Jonah 1:16

This made the sailors so afraid of the Lord that they offered a sacrifice and promised to serve him.

Jonah 1:6

The captain found him there and said to him, “What are you doing asleep? Get up and pray to your god for help. Maybe he will feel sorry for us and spare our lives.”

Matthew 25:5

The bridegroom was late in coming, so they began to nod and fall asleep.

Matthew 26:43

He returned once more and found the disciples asleep; they could not keep their eyes open.

Matthew 26:45

Then he returned to the disciples and said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look! The hour has come for the Son of Man to be handed over to the power of sinners.

Acts 27:38

After everyone had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing all the wheat into the sea.

Judges 16:19

Delilah lulled Samson to sleep in her lap and then called a man, who cut off Samson's seven locks of hair. Then she began to torment him, for he had lost his strength.

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to a cave close to some sheep pens by the road and went in to relieve himself. It happened to be the very cave in which David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.