Jonah 1:10

Overview - Jonah 1
Jonah, sent to Nineveh, flees to Tarshish.
He is bewrayed by a tempest;
11 thrown into the sea;
17 and swallowed by a fish.
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Jonah 1:10  (King James Version)
Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
 


were
John 19:8

exceedingly afraid
Hebrew afraid, with great fear.
Daniel 5:6-9

Why
Joshua 7:25 ; 2 Samuel 24:3

he fled
3 ; Job 27:22