16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
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Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-17)It is plain that Jonah is the man for whose sake this evil is upon them, but the discovery of him to be so was not sufficient to answer the demands of this tempest; they had found him out, but something more was to be done, for still the sea wrought and was tempestuous (Jonah 1:11), and again (Jonah 1:13), it grew more and more tempestuous (so the margin reads it); for if we discover sin to be the…
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