Jonah 1:16 {15}
Good News Translation
This made the sailors so afraid of the LORD that they offered a sacrifice and promised to serve him.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the men feared the LORD even more, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

Contemporary English Version
The sailors were so terrified that they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made all kinds of promises.

New American Bible
Seized with great fear of the LORD, the men offered sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.

feared.

Jonah 1:10 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.

Isaiah 26:9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Daniel 4:34-37 Therefore I, Nabuchodonosor, do now praise, and magnify, and glorify the King of heaven: because all his works are true, and his ways judgments, and them that walk in pride he is able to abase. . . .

Daniel 6:26 It is decreed by me, that in all my empire and my kingdom, all men dread and fear the God of Daniel. For he is the living and eternal God for ever: and his kingdom shall not be destroyed, and his power shall be for ever.

Mark 4:31 It is as a grain of mustard seed: which when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that are in the earth:

Acts 5:11 And there came great fear upon the whole church and upon all that heard these things.

offered, etc.

Genesis 8:20 And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Judges 13:16 And the angel answered him: If thou press me I will not eat of thy bread: but if thou wilt offer a holocaust, offer it to the Lord. And Manue knew not it was the angel of the Lord.

2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said: As thou wilt: but I beseech thee, grant to me, thy servant, to take from hence two mules' burden of earth: for thy servant will not henceforth offer holocaust, or victim, to other gods, but to the Lord.

Psalm 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.

Isaiah 60:5-7 Then shalt thou see, and abound, and thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged, when the multitude of the sea shall be converted to thee, the strength of the Gentiles shall come to thee. . . .

made.

Genesis 28:20 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 66:13-16 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

Psalm 116:14 I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people:

Ecclesiastes 5:4 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.

Context
Jonah Cast Into the Sea and Swallowed
15And they cried to the Lord, and said: We beseech thee, O Lord let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, oh Lord, hast done as it pleased thee. 16And they took Jonah, and cast him into the sea, and the sea ceased from raging.17And the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and sacrificed victims to the Lord, and made vows.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 66:13
I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,

Psalm 66:14
Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Jonah 1:14
And the men rowed hard to return the land, but they were not able: because the sea tossed and swelled upon them.

Jonah 1:15
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