OLD TESTAMENT

Jonah 1:9

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He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

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EXPLANATION

Verse 9. Fear, and therefore fly from the face of the Lord. verse 3, 10. Bible.—He knew that God is every where, verse 3. Psalms 33:8. Calmet.—Septuagint “I worship.” Fear is often taken in this sense. Bible.

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The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).

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