Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Jonah 1:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Proverbs 16:33
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
- Joshua 7:13
Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the mids…
- Numbers 32:23
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
- 1 Samuel 14:41
Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
- Acts 13:19
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
- Joshua 7:10
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
- 1 Samuel 10:20
And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
- Psalms 22:18
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
- Matthew 27:35
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments amo…
- Isaiah 41:6
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the c…
- Judges 20:9
But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
More to meet God in Jonah
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.