‘Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his God out of the fish's innards.'
All Jonah probably knew was that he was somewhere safe where he could breathe and pray. It would only be later that he discovered that he was in the innards of a large fish. And knowing that he had been saved from certain death he was no doubt confident that God would sort everything out.
CHAPTER II _This chapter (except the first verse and the last, which make_ _a part of the narrative) contains a beautiful prayer or hymn,_ _formed of those devout thoughts which Jonah had in the be...
THEN - (“And”) Jonah prayed, i. e., when the three days and nights were passed, he uttered this devotion. The word “prayed” includes thanksgiving, not petition only. It is said of Hannah that she “pra...
CHAPTER 2 Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance _ 1. The prayer (John 2:1) _ 2. The deliverance (John 2:10) John 2:1. Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the prayer is not one offered u...
JONAH 1:1 TO JONAH 2:1; JONAH 2:10. JONAH VAINLY SEEKS TO EVADE THE MISSION TO WHICH GOD APPOINTS HIM. Jonah is bidden by Yahweh to proclaim judgment on Nineveh for its sin, but he hurries in the oppo...
THEN. And See note on Jonah 2:10. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. BELLY. bowels. Compare Jonah 1:17. NOTE THE FIGURE OF SPEECH _Exergasia_ (App-6), as shown by the...
_Then Jonah prayed_ What follows, Jonah 2:2, is rather a thanksgiving than a prayer. The same, however, may be said of Hannah's utterance (1 Samuel 2:1-10), which is introduced by the same word ("Hann...
_JONAH'S SAD SITUATION IN LIFE -- JONAH 2:1-3:_ Running from God caused Jonah to find himself in a horrible state. He was in the fish's belly. Imagine the horrors that you would feel being in the guts...
THEN JONAH PRAYED, &C.— The following prayer was conceived and formed, as to substance, in the belly of the fish, and probably afterwards digested and written in its present mode; a thanksgiving for h...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PRAYER OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:1-6 1 Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly. 2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jeh...
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, THEN JONAH PRAYED UNTO THE LORD HIS GOD - his still, though Jonah had fled from Him. Faith enables Jonah now to feel this; just as t...
HIS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very plainly the horror inspired by the sea in the minds of a...
THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God. Verse 1 Jonah learned that nobody can get away from God (Psalm...
II. JONAH’S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE. (1) THEN JONAH PRAYED. — This introduction, to what is in reality a psalm of thanksgiving, has its parallel in Hannah’s song (1 Samuel 2:1), which is introduced in...
_[Jonah 2:2]_ וַ יִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל יֹונָ֔ה אֶל ־יְהוָ֖ה...
THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM John 2:1 AT this point in the tale appears the Great Fish. "And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish thre...
A PRAYER FROM THE DEPTHS John 1:17; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover of men. To pl...
In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of...
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God (a) out of the fish's belly, (a) Being now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this ver...
Fish. Hebrew dag: afterwards daga occurs, ver. 2; (Haydock) on which Leusden observes, the Jews infer that Jonas was first swallowed up by male and then by a female fish, which being full of young he...
Let the Reader here learn, and learn with trembling, that sin will bring trouble even to God's dear children. So runs the charter in the covenant of grace. Psalms 89:30. Learn also, that it is nothing...
CONTENTS We have here the prayer which Jonah offered up to the Lord in his dreadful distress. The Lord's gracious answer also in his deliverance....
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...
Jonah the Penitent I. INTRODUCTION A. We left off in our last study with Jonah being swallowed by the "great fish" and that is where we will pick up our study this morning - but before we do, I woul...
When Jonah says that he _prayed from the bowels of the fish, _he shows first with what courage of mind he was endued. He had then put on a new heart; for when he was at liberty he thought that he coul...
We have seen that the judgments which fall upon the unfaithful witness, being at length acknowledged by himself, are the means through which the name of Jehovah becomes known and worshipped among the...
THEN JONAH PRAYED UNTO THE LORD HIS GOD OUT OF THE FISH'S BELLY. Though Jonah had been a praying man, being a good man, and a prophet of the Lord, yet it seems he had not prayed for some time; being d...
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, Ver. 1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God_] _i.e._ Praised God with this _Canticum eucharisticum,_ this gratulatory song, as Tr...
_Then Jonah prayed_ Those devout thoughts and feelings which he had at that time, he afterward digested into the following prayer, and added a thanksgiving for his deliverance at the end of it. So sev...
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God, out of the fish's belly, these thoughts occurring to him again and again during his awful experience,...
JONAH'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a thanksgiving to the Lord for the deliverance already effected. From this we see, as Lut...
1-9 Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sen...
JONAH CHAPTER 2 The prayer of Jonah, JONAH 1:1. He is delivered out of the belly of the fish, JONAH 1:10. THEN, Heb. _And_, at that time when he lay by the heels a close prisoner in a prison, whence n...
Jonah 2:1 Jonah H3124 prayed H6419 (H8691) LORD H3068 God H430 fishs H1710 belly H4578 prayed -...
JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...
Jonah 2:1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly._ What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that ever went up to God out of a fish's belly. Jonah fou...
CONTENTS: Jonah's prayer out of the depths and its answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah. CONCLUSION: Though we bring affliction upon ourselves by our sins, yet if we pray in humility and godly sincerity,...
Jonah 2:4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight._ After what we have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need not wonder to find him sinking into deep dejection and distress....
_And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly._ THE RETURN TO GOD The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show the nature of his sin, the truth of his penitence, and...
JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 2:1 Finally, JONAH PRAYED. He did not pray for God to save the pagan sailors, but he did thank God for saving him. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES. PRAYED] Really praised. HIS] not only to Jehovah as the sailors did. “He shows his _faith_ by adoring Him as _his_ God” [_Burk_], The structure of this hymn, composed like many Psalms,...
EXPOSITION JONAH 2:1 Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE. JONAH 2:1 1. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which h
CHAPTER IV. JONAH IN HIS DISTRESS AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION IT is always interesting, and may be profitable as well as interesting, to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the st...
Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1), Jonah must have been a stubborn man indeed that he would wait three days and three nights before he would begin to pray. H...
2 Chronicles 33:11; Acts 16:24; Acts 16:25; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 6:1;...
JONAH, IN THE SCHOOL OF AFFLICTION Jonah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the he...