Jonah 1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Cross-references
In Jonah 1:6, the captain urges Jonah to call on his god — echoing the mariners' own cries to their gods in this verse.
In Jonah 1:14, the sailors pray to the LORD instead — contrasting with their earlier prayers to their own gods here.
In Jonah 1:16, the sailors fear and worship the LORD — a progression from their earlier fear and crying to their own gods here.
Acts 27:18 depicts the same action — throwing cargo overboard in a storm — revealing a consistent survival response.
Acts 27:19 shows even the ship's tackle thrown over — escalating the jettison beyond cargo, as in Jonah's storm.
Acts 27:38 repeats the jettison of grain — reinforcing this motif of lightening the ship in peril.
In Isaiah 46:7, idols cannot answer or save — illustrating the futility of the sailors' cries to their gods.
Matthew 8:24 shows Jesus sleeping through a storm, echoing Jonah's sleep — a typological parallel of the sleeping prophet and the greater one.
Habakkuk 2:19 mocks calling on lifeless idols — mirroring the sailors' futile cries to their gods in the storm.
In Psalm 107:28, sailors cry to the Lord and are delivered — the opposite of Jonah's sailors crying to false gods.
Jeremiah 2:28 challenges false gods to save in time of trouble — mirroring the mariners' futile cries here.
In 1 Kings 18:26, Baal's prophets cry out unanswered — similar to the mariners' futile cries to their gods here.
Isaiah 44:17-20 mocks the absurdity of idol-making — the same folly as the mariners praying to powerless idols here.