Jonah 1:9-11

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⁹So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I [reverently] fear and worship the Lord, the God of heaven, ^[a]who made the sea and the dry land.”

¹⁰Then the men became extremely frightened and said to him, “How could you do this?” For the men knew that he was running from the presence of the Lord, ^[b]because he had told them. ¹¹Then they said to him, “What should we do to you, so that the sea will become calm for us?”—for the sea was becoming more and more violent.

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Footnotes

Jonah 1:9 This was an important addition to Jonah’s description of God, because most people who believed in pagan gods had different deities for different regions of the created world, and often they also worshiped deities of their own localities. Jonah was affirming that there is only one true God.
Jonah 1:10 Jonah probably had informed them when he first boarded (cf v 3) but they may not have taken him seriously, or perhaps they were just indifferent to his reason for the voyage. Now that they were in mortal danger, they believed him.