Jonah 1:4-6 ASV, Jonah 1:7 ASV, Jonah 1:8 ASV and Jonah 1:9-16 ASV

Jonah and the Pagan Sailors. This episode highlights Jonah’s encounter with pagan sailors and raises the question, "Who fears the Lord—Jonah or the pagans?" The key repeated word is “fear”: at the beginning and end the sailors “fear” (vv. 5, 16); in the middle Jonah claims to “fear” the Lord (v. 9) while the sailors actually fear (v. 10a).