Jonah 1:15

THE MESSAGE

They took Jonah and threw him overboard. Immediately the sea was quieted down.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Hebrew Names Version
So they took up Yonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

King James Version (1611)
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him foorth into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

King James Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

English Standard Version
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

New American Standard Bible
So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

New Century Version
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea became calm.

Amplified Bible
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So they tooke vp Ionah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from her raging.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they picked up Jonah, threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped its raging.

Legacy Standard Bible
So they lifted Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea stood still from its raging.

Berean Standard Bible
At this, they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the raging sea grew calm.

Contemporary English Version
Then they threw Jonah overboard, and the sea calmed down.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then they picked up Yonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

Darby Translation
And they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the men threw Jonah into the sea. The storm stopped, and the sea became calm.

George Lamsa Translation
So they took up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Good News Translation
Then they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and it calmed down at once.

Lexham English Bible
And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

Literal Translation
And they lifted Jonah up and threw him into the sea. And the sea ceased from its raging.

American Standard Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Bible in Basic English
So they took Jonah up and put him into the sea: and the sea was no longer angry.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So they toke vp Ionas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea left raging.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So they took Jonas, and cast him out into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

English Revised Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

World English Bible
So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased its raging.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei token Jonas, and threwen in to the see; and the see stood of his buylyng.

Update Bible Version
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Webster's Bible Translation
So they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.

New English Translation
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.

New King James Version
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.

New Living Translation
Then the sailors picked Jonah up and threw him into the raging sea, and the storm stopped at once!

New Life Bible
So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and the storm stopped.

New Revised Standard
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they took up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, - and the sea, left off, her roaring.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took Jonas, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.

Revised Standard Version
So they took up Jonah and threw him into the sea; and the sea ceased from its raging.

Young's Literal Translation
And they lift up Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceaseth from its raging;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So they toke Ionas, and cast him in to the see, and the see lefte ragynge.

Contextual Overview

¹¹ They said to him, "What are we going to do with you—to get rid of this storm?" By this time the sea was wild, totally out of control. ¹² Jonah said, "Throw me overboard, into the sea. Then the storm will stop. It's all my fault. I'm the cause of the storm. Get rid of me and you'll get rid of the storm." ¹³ But no. The men tried rowing back to shore. They made no headway. The storm only got worse and worse, wild and raging. ¹⁴ Then they prayed to God , "O God! Don't let us drown because of this man's life, and don't blame us for his death. You are God . Do what you think is best." ¹⁵ They took Jonah and threw him overboard. Immediately the sea was quieted down. ¹⁶ The sailors were impressed, no longer terrified by the sea, but in awe of God . They worshiped God , offered a sacrifice, and made vows. ¹⁷ Then God assigned a huge fish to swallow Jonah. Jonah was in the fish's belly three days and nights.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Joshua 7:24-26, 2 Samuel 21:8, 2 Samuel 21:9

and the: Psalms 89:9, Psalms 93:3, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 107:29, Matthew 8:26, Luke 8:24

ceased: Heb. stood

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 21:14 - God Psalms 65:7 - Which Mark 4:41 - feared

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So they took up, Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea,.... They took him out of the hold or cabin where he was, and brought him upon deck; they took him, not against his will, but with his full consent, and according to the direction and advice he gave them: "they", for there were more than one employed in this affair; one or more very probably took him by the legs, and others put their hands under his arm holes, and so threw him into the sea:

and the sea ceased from her raging; immediately, and became a calm; and the wind also ceased from blowing, which is supposed; the end being answered by the storm, and the person found and obtained, what was sought after by it, it was still and quiet. The story the Jews m tell of his being let down into the sea to his knees, upon which the sea was calm, but became raging again upon his being taken up; and so, at the second time, to his navel; and the third time to his neck; is all fabulous; but he being wholly thrown in, it raged no more.

m Pirke Eliezer, c. 10. fol. 10. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They took up Jonah - ^o “He does not say, ‘laid hold on him’, nor ‘came upon him’ but ‘lifted’ him; as it were, bearing him with respect and honor, they cast him into the sea, not resisting, but yielding himself to their will.”

The sea ceased (literally “stood”) from his raging - Ordinarily, the waves still swell, when the wind has ceased. The sea, when it had received Jonah, was hushed at once, to show that God alone raised and quelled it. It “stood” still, like a servant, when it had accomplished its mission. God, who at all times saith to it Job 38:11, “Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed,” now unseen, as afterward in the flesh Matthew 8:26, “rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm” . “If we consider the errors of the world before the Passion of Christ, and the conflicting blasts of diverse doctrines, and the vessel, and the whole race of man, i. e., the creature of the Lord, imperiled, and, after His Passion, the tranquility of faith and the peace of the world and the security of all things and the conversion to God, we shall see how, after Jonah was cast in, the sea stood from its raging” . “Jonah, in the sea, a fugitive, shipwrecked, dead, sayeth the tempest-tossed vessel; he sayeth the pagan, aforetime tossed to and fro by the error of the world into divers opinions. And Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, Joel, who prophesied at the same time, could not amend the people in Judaea; whence it appeared that the breakers could not be calmed, save by the death of (Him typified by) the fugitive.”