the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Jonah 1:9
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He answered them, “I’m a Hebrew. I worship the Lord, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
And hee said vnto them, I am an Hebrew, and I feare the Lord the God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry land.
And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the Lord , the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
So he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land."
Then Jonah said to them, "I am a Hebrew. I fear the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."
So he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I [reverently] fear and worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
And he answered them, I am an Ebrewe, and I feare the Lord God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the dry lande.
He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land."
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
"I am a Hebrew," replied Jonah. "I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land."
Jonah answered, "I'm a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
He answered them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear Adonai , the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land."
And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear Jehovah, the God of the heavens, who hath made the sea and the dry [land].
Jonah said to them, "I am a Hebrew. I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the land and the sea."
And Jonah said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I worship the LORD the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.
"I am a Hebrew," Jonah answered. "I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made land and sea."
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
And he said to them, I am a Hebrew. And I fear Jehovah, the God of Heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.
And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.
And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
And he said unto them: 'I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.'
And he aunswered them: I am an Hebrue, and I feare the Lorde God of heauen, which hath made the sea, and the drye lande.
And he said to them, I am a servant of the Lord; and I worship the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea, and the dry land.
And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land."
And he seide to hem, Y am an Ebrew, and Y drede the Lord God of heuene, that made the see and the drie lond.
And he said to them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.
And he said to them, I [am] a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry [land].
He said to them, "I am a Hebrew! And I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
So he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
Jonah answered, "I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the land."
Jonah said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I worship the Lord God of heaven Who made the sea and the dry land."
"I am a Hebrew," he replied. "I worship the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
And he said unto them, A Hebrew, am I, - and, Yahweh, the God of the heavens, do, I, revere, him who made the sea, and the dry land.
And he said to them: I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord, and the God of heaven, who made both the sea and the dry land.
And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
And he saith unto them, `A Hebrew I [am], and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'
He answered them: I am an Ebrue, and I feare the LORDE God of heauen, which made both the see and drie londe.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I am: Genesis 14:13, Genesis 39:14, Philippians 3:5
and I: 2 Kings 17:25, 2 Kings 17:28, 2 Kings 17:32-35, Job 1:9, Hosea 3:5, Acts 27:23, Revelation 15:4
the Lord: or, Jehovah
the God: Ezra 1:2, Ezra 5:11, Ezra 7:12, Ezra 7:13, Nehemiah 1:4, Nehemiah 2:4, Psalms 136:26, Daniel 2:18, Daniel 2:19, Daniel 2:44, Revelation 11:13, Revelation 16:11
which: Nehemiah 9:6, Psalms 95:5, Psalms 95:6, Psalms 146:5, Psalms 146:6, Acts 14:15, Acts 17:23-25
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:9 - General Genesis 3:8 - hid Genesis 24:7 - Lord Esther 3:4 - he had told Mark 4:41 - feared Acts 16:17 - the servants Romans 10:14 - shall they 1 Corinthians 8:6 - one God
Cross-References
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.
Then God said, "I've given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth And every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food. To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food." And there it was.
He told them, "I'm a Hebrew. I worship God , the God of heaven who made sea and land."
They conveniently forget that long ago all the galaxies and this very planet were brought into existence out of watery chaos by God's word. Then God's word brought the chaos back in a flood that destroyed the world. The current galaxies and earth are fuel for the final fire. God is poised, ready to speak his word again, ready to give the signal for the judgment and destruction of the desecrating skeptics.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he said unto them, I [am] an Hebrew,.... He does not say a Jew, as the Targum wrongly renders it; for that would have been false, since he was of the tribe of Zebulun, which was in the kingdom of Israel, and not of Judah; nor does he say an Israelite, lest he should be thought to be in the idolatry of that people; but a Hebrew, which was common to both; and, besides, it not only declared what nation he was of, but what religion he professed, and who was his God:
and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry [land]; this answers to the other question, what was his occupation or business? he was one that feared the Lord, that served and worshipped him; a prophet of the great God, as Josephus g expresses and so Kimchi; the mighty Jehovah, that made the "heavens", and dwells in them; and from whence that storm of wind came, which had so much distressed the ship, and still continued: and who made the "sea", which was now so boisterous and raging, and threatened them with ruin; and "the dry land", where they would be glad to have been at that instant. By this description of God, as the prophet designed to set him forth in his nature and works, so to distinguish him from the gods of Heathens, who had only particular parts of the universe assigned to them, when his Jehovah was Lord of all; but where was the prophet's fear and reverence of God when he fled from him, and disobeyed him? it was not lost, though not in exercise.
g Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I am an Hebrew - This was the name by which Israel was known to foreigners. It is used in the Old Testament, only when they are spoken of by foreigners, or speak of themselves to foreigners, or when the sacred writers mention them in contrast with foreigners . So Joseph spoke of his land Genesis 40:15, and the Hebrew midwives Exodus 1:19, and Mosesâ sister Exodus 2:7, and God in His commission to Moses Exodus 3:18; Exodus 7:16; Exodus 9:1 as to Pharaoh, and Moses in fulfilling it Exodus 5:3. They had the name, as having passed the River Euphrates, âemigrants.â The title might serve to remind themselves, that they were âstrangersâ and âpilgrims,â Hebrews 11:13. whose fathers had left their home at Godâs command and for God , âpassers by, through this world to death, and through death to immortality.â
And I fear the Lord - , i. e., I am a worshiper of Him, most commonly, one who habitually stands in awe of Him, and so one who stands in awe of sin too. For none really fear God, none fear Him as sons, who do not fear Him in act. To be afraid of God is not to fear Him. To be afraid of God keeps men away from God; to fear God draws them to Him. Here, however, Jonah probably meant to tell them, that the Object of his fear and worship was the One Self-existing God, He who alone is, who made all things, in whose hands are all things. He had told them before, that he had fled âfrom being before Yahweh.â They had not thought anything of this, for they thought of Yahweh, only as the God of the Jews. Now he adds, that He, Whose service he had thus forsaken, was âthe God of heaven, Who made the sea and dry land,â that sea, whose raging terrified them and threatened their lives. The title, âthe God of heaven,â asserts the doctrine of the creation of the heavens by God, and His supremacy.
Hence, Abraham uses it to his servant Genesis 24:7, and Jonah to the pagan mariners, and Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:37, Daniel 2:44; and Cyrus in acknowledging God in his proclamation 2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:2. After his example, it is used in the decrees of Darius Ezra 6:9-10 and Artaxerxes Ezra 7:12, Ezra 7:21, Ezra 7:23, and the returned exiles use it in giving account of their building the temple to the Governor Ezra 5:11-12. Perhaps, from the habit of contact with the pagan, it is used once by Daniel Daniel 2:18 and by Nehemiah Nehemiah 1:4-5; Nehemiah 2:4, Nehemiah 2:20. Melchizedek, not perhaps being acquainted with the special name, Yahweh, blessed Abraham in the name of âGod, the Possessorâ or âCreator of heaven and earthâ Genesis 14:19, i. e., of all that is. Jonah, by using it, at once taught the sailors that there is One Lord of all, and why this evil had fallen on them, because they had himself with them, the renegade servant of God. âWhen Jonah said this, he indeed feared God and repented of his sin. If he lost filial fear by fleeing and disobeying, he recovered it by repentance.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. I fear the Lord — In this Jonah was faithful. He gave an honest testimony concerning the God he served, which placed him before the eyes of the sailors as infinitely higher than the objects of their adoration; for the God of Jonah was the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land, and governed both. He also honestly told them that he was fleeing from the presence of this God, whose honourable call he had refused to obey. See John 1:10.
