Jonah 1:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Jonah 1:6 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jonah 3:9
Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
Psalms 107:28-29
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. …
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
2 Samuel 12:22
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?
Mark 4:37-41
And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-10)

When Jonah was set on ship-board, and under sail for Tarshish, he thought himself safe enough; but here we find him pursued and overtaken, discovered and convicted as a deserter from God, as one that had run his colours. I. God sends a pursuer after him, a mighty tempest in the sea, Jonah 1:4. God has the winds in his treasure (Ps. 135:7), and out of these treasures God sent forth, he cast forth (…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. call upon thy God--The ancient heathen in dangers called on foreign gods, besides their national ones (compare Psa 107:28). Maurer translates the preceding clause, “What is the reason that thou sleepest?” think upon us--for good (compare Ge 8:1; Ex 2:25; 3:7, 9; Psa 40:17).