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Jonah 1:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Jonah 1:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Set out for the great city[a] of Nineveh, and preach against it; for their wickedness has come before me.(A) 3 But Jonah made ready to flee to Tarshish,[b] away from the Lord. He went down to Joppa, found a ship going to Tarshish, paid the fare, and went down in it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
4 (B)The Lord, however, hurled a great wind upon the sea, and the storm was so great that the ship was about to break up.
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- 1:2 Great city: exaggeration is characteristic of this book; the word “great” (Heb. gadol) occurs fourteen times.
- 1:3 Tarshish: identified by many with Tartessus, an ancient Phoenician colony in southwest Spain; precise identification with any particular Phoenician center in the western Mediterranean is uncertain. To the Israelites it stood for the far west.
Jonah 1:2-4
New International Version
Jonah 1:2-4
New International Version
2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh(A) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
3 But Jonah ran(B) away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish(C). He went down to Joppa,(D) where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.(E)
4 Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.(F)
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