Jonah 1:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the sailors were afraid, and each cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:26

So they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, crying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice and no answer. They limped about the altar that they had made.

Job 2:4

Then the accuser answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

Psalm 107:25

For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

Psalm 148:8

fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command!

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come together; draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 2:28

But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them come, if they can save you, in your time of trouble, for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Jonah 1:14

Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, O Lord, we pray, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life. Do not make us guilty of innocent blood, for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.”

Jonah 1:16

Then the men feared the Lord even more, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows.

Jonah 1:6

The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”

Matthew 25:5

As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.

Matthew 26:43

Again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

Matthew 26:45

Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? Now the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Acts 27:38

After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

Judges 16:19

She let him fall asleep on her lap, and she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. He began to weaken, and his strength left him.

1 Samuel 24:3

He came to the sheepfolds beside the road, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.