Jonah 1:5

New Living Translation

Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. But all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:26

So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning until noontime, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made.

Job 2:4

Satan replied to the Lord, “Skin for skin! A man will give up everything he has to save his life.

Psalm 107:25

He spoke, and the winds rose, stirring up the waves.

Psalm 148:8

fire and hail, snow and clouds, wind and weather that obey him,

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to search and a time to quit searching. A time to keep and a time to throw away.

Isaiah 45:20

“Gather together and come, you fugitives from surrounding nations. What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save!

Jeremiah 2:28

But why not call on these gods you have made? When trouble comes, let them save you if they can! For you have as many gods as there are towns in Judah.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts. Instead, they sit on their couches and wail. They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for grain and new wine, and they turn away from me.

Jonah 1:14

Then they cried out to the Lord, Jonah’s God. “O Lord,” they pleaded, “don’t make us die for this man’s sin. And don’t hold us responsible for his death. O Lord, you have sent this storm upon him for your own good reasons.”

Jonah 1:16

The sailors were awestruck by the Lord’s great power, and they offered him a sacrifice and vowed to serve him.

Jonah 1:6

So the captain went down after him. “How can you sleep at a time like this?” he shouted. “Get up and pray to your god! Maybe he will pay attention to us and spare our lives.”

Matthew 25:5

When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Matthew 26:43

When he returned to them again, he found them sleeping, for they couldn’t keep their eyes open.

Matthew 26:45

Then he came to the disciples and said, “Go ahead and sleep. Have your rest. But look—the time has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Acts 27:38

After eating, the crew lightened the ship further by throwing the cargo of wheat overboard.

Judges 16:19

Delilah lulled Samson to sleep with his head in her lap, and then she called in a man to shave off the seven locks of his hair. In this way she began to bring him down, and his strength left him.

1 Samuel 24:3

At the place where the road passes some sheepfolds, Saul went into a cave to relieve himself. But as it happened, David and his men were hiding farther back in that very cave!