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Jonah 1:6

So the shipmaster came to him and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Why should he withdraw at the time of this great peril?. Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not, by lending them His assistance and rescuing them from the impending destruction.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 6. _THE SHIPMASTER_] Either the _captain_ or the _pilot_. _ARISE, CALL UPON THY GOD_] He supposed that Jonah had _his_ god, as well as they had _theirs_; and that, as the danger was imminent, e...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHAT MEANEST THOU? - or rather, “what aileth thee?” (literally “what is to thee?”) The shipmaster speaks of it (as it was) as a sort of disease, that he should be thus asleep in the common peril. “The...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Commission of the Prophet ,His Disobedience, and the Consequences _ 1. The commission (John 1:1) _ 2. The disobedience (John 1:3) 3. The consequences (John...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JONAH 1:1 TO JONAH 2:1; JONAH 2:10. JONAH VAINLY SEEKS TO EVADE THE MISSION TO WHICH GOD APPOINTS HIM. Jonah is bidden by Yahweh to proclaim judgment on Nineveh for its sin, but he hurries in the oppo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHIPMASTER. chief of the rope. Phoenician for captain. Hebrew. _rab hachobel._ Not. "later word", because. "captain" is not mentioned earlier. _Rah =_ captain, or head. See 2 Kings 25:8; Esther 1:8; D...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The conduct of the heathen mariners stands in striking and favourable contrast with that of the Jewish prophet. They call upon their gods and use every effort to save the ship. He, moody, miserable, a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jonah's Punishment. The Storm and its consequences No sooner does Jonah decide upon his course of action and think himself now secure of its accomplishment, than God arrests him by the judgment of th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the shipmaster_ Lit., THE CHIEF OF THE SAILORS, i. e. the captain. The word here for _sailors_(which is singular and used collectively) is not the same word as that rendered _mariners_in Jonah 1:5. I...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _WHY HAST THOU DONE THIS -- JONAH 1:4-10:_ God sent a very violent wind that was about to destroy the boat that Jonah was in. Jonah learned "the hard way" that it is a terrible mistake to run from God...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1198 JONAH REPROVED BY THE MARINERS John 1:6. _So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon u...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING FROM GODTHE CONTRARIETY OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 1:3-10 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. SO THE SHIPMASTER CAME TO HIM, AN...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISOBEDIENCE OF JONAH 2. Nineveh] the world-famous capital of Assyria, on the Tigris. For its wickedness cp. Nahum 3. 3. Jonah seeks to escape from the unwelcome task, both because he hates the N...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ INTRODUCTION The book does not say who wrote it. It is unlikely that Jonah was the author. This is because the story is not very favourable...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE SHIPMASTER... — Literally, _the chief of those who work at the rope._ Jewish nautical terms are infrequent and therefore obscure. The word _mariners,_ in Jonah 1:5, correctly renders a term which...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּקְרַ֤ב אֵלָיו֙ רַ֣ב הַ חֹבֵ֔ל וַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE GREAT REFUSAL John 1:1 WE have now laid clear the lines upon which the Book of Jonah was composed. Its purpose is to illustrate God's grace to the heathen in face of His people's refusal to fulfi...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FLEEING FROM GOD AND DUTY John 1:1-16 Jonah is mentioned in 2 Kings 14:25. He was clearly very patriotic, and did not despair of his country in its darkest days. This commission to Nineveh was theref...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In narrating his own experience on his mission to Nineveh, Jonah intended to teach his people the lesson of the inclusiveness of the divine government, and thus to rebuke their exclusive attitude towa...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy (h) God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. (h) As they had called on their...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord sometimes sends preachers like this ship-master, from even the unawakened, to rouse his own people. But had Jonah considered it: what a reproach was this to him; that he, whom the Lord of hea...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Jonah the Sleeper I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we began our study of the book of Jonah. 1. As usual, we did a brief background study and you might remember that I shared with you that this little b...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jonah relates here how he was reproved by the pilot or master of the ship (18), inasmuch as he alone slept, while all the rest were in anxiety and fear. “What meanest thou, fast sleeper?” The pilot no...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Introduction to Jonah Nineveh-which represents the world in its natural greatness, full of pride and iniquity, regardless of God and of His authority-had deserved the righteous judgment of God. This i...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO THE SHIPMASTER CAME TO HIM,.... The master of the vessel, who had the command of it; or the governor of it, as Jarchi; though Josephus d distinguishes between the governor and the shipmaster: "the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. Ver. 6. _So the shipmaster came unt...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _So the ship-master_ Who had the conduct of the vessel, and from whose mouth such a reproof was seasonable; _came and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper?_ A just and necessary reproof this. We...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-7 God sent a pursuer after Jonah, even a mighty tempest. Sin brings storms and tempests into the soul, into the family, into churches and nations; it is a disquieting, disturbing thing. Having call...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SO THE SHIP-MASTER, who had the conduct of the vessel, and from whose mouth such a reproof was seasonable, came to him; missing him, when all the rest were toiled with labour, and had been crying migh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 1:6 captain H7227 H2259 came H7126 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) sleeper H7290 (H8737) Arise...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, O sleeper? Arise, call on your God, if so be that God will think on us, so that we perish not.” ' The shipmaster was concerned to se...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jonah 1:1. Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jonah's commission and effort to avoid God's will. Swallowed by a great fish. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah, seamen. CONCLUSION: Men may be distinctly called of God to proclaim His message, yet r...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jonah 1:1. _The word of the Lord came to Jonah._ The word of prophecy, delivered by Christ, the preëxistent Word, as appears from his reasoning with the prophet when angry that Nineveh was spared. Jon...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _So the shipmaster came to him._ A MODEL SEA-CAPTAIN The shipmaster was a good workman. The spirit and manner in which he went about his work deserve our imitation. He was intensely in earnest. At a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 1:4 Jonah and the Pagan Sailors. These verses tell of Jonah’s encounter with pagan sailors. It raises the question, Who truly fears the Lord—Jonah, or the pagans? At the beginning...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 1:6 ARISE, CALL OUT echoes God’s command in v. Jonah 1:2. NOT PERISH. A pagan, not Jonah, is concerned that people not die....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] JONAH 1:6. WHAT] He sleeps, they pray (Psalms 107:28). GOD] Lit. _the_ God; other gods powerless (_perhaps_ the language of hope); Jonah’s God could help them. _HOMILETICS_ CONTRAST...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JONAH 1:1 Part I. THE MISSION OF JONAH. HIS DISOBEDIENCE AND PUNISHMENT. JONAH 1:1 § 1. Jonah is sent to Nine

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER III. JONAH'S BEHAVIOUR ON RECEIVING THE DIVINE COMMISSION, AND THE EXTRAORDINARY MEANS TAKEN TO RECLAIM HIM FROM HIS BACKSLIDING IF it seemed strange, at first sight, that Jonah should have re...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Jonah Now we come to that interesting prophet Jonah. Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedne...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Samuel 12:22; Acts 21:13; Amos 5:15; Ephesians 5:14; Esther 4:16;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JONAH, THE BOOK OF DIVINE REVELATIONS Jonah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want, as we enter into the Book of Jonah, to speak of its historicity. There are many today who relegate this most marvelous me...

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