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Jonah 1:11

King James Version (KJV)

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Jonah 1:11

Verse 11 of 17

Scripture focus

Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.

Jonah 1:11 — KJV

Theological / Devotional

What shall we do? Jonah was presumably the only one familiar with Jehovah and acquainted with the means by which to atone for the offense.

The sea wrought. The Hebrew idiom here employed shows that the tempest was increasing in fury.

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