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So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won`t perish."
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An Unlikely Rebuke
Commentators consistently highlight the profound irony of a pagan shipmaster rebuking a prophet of God. Jonah, who should have been calling others to prayer, was asleep in his disobedience. Scholars like Spurgeon and Gill see this as a powerful warning for believers today: we must not become so spiritually complacent that the world has to remind us of our duty to call upon God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What meanest thou?—or rather, “what is wrong with you?” (literally, “what is to you?”). The shipmaster speaks of it (as it was) as …
19th Century
Anglican
The shipmaster ...— Literally, the chief of those who work at the rope. Jewish nautical terms are infrequent and…
Baptist
It is hard when sinners have to rebuke saints, and when an uncircumcised Gentile can address a prophet of God in language like this.
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16th Century
Protestant
Jonah relates here how he was reproved by the pilot or master of the ship, since he alone slept while all the rest were in anxiety and fear. “W…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So the shipmaster came to him The master of the vessel, who had the command of it; or the governor of it, as Jarchi;…
God sent a pursuer after Jonah, namely, a mighty tempest. Sin brings storms and tempests into the soul, into the family, into churches, and nations…
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