Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jonah 2:10
Spake — Though fishes understand not as man, yet they have ears to hear their Creator.
Spake — Though fishes understand not as man, yet they have ears to hear their Creator.
Verse Jonah 2:10. _AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO THE FISH_] That is, by his influence the fish swam to shore, and cast Jonah on the dry land. So the whole was a miracle from the beginning to the end; and w...
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO THE FISH - Psalms 148:8. Wind and storm fulfill His word. The irrational creatures have wills. God had commanded the prophet, and he disobeyed. God, in some way, commanded the...
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...
AND, &C. Jonah's rapid thought and words before he died were subsequently written down by him; for all the verbs are in the past tense, not the present. Compare Jonah 2:6, "didst bring", &c. See notes...
_A FISH LISTENED TO GOD -- JONAH 2:10:_ What a sad lesson it is to realize that a fished listened to God while Jonah, His prophet, and many of us do not listen at all. The deliverance of Jonah was des...
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO THE FISH— The power of the Almighty is frequently represented in Scripture, as bringing things to pass by his bare word and command; he speaks, and it is done. Various are the...
GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PRESERVATION OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:10 10 And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. QUERIES a. How does God communicate with...
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO THE FISH, AND IT VOMITED OUT JONAH UPON THE DRY LAND - probably on the coast of Palestine. Re...
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...
_[Jonah 2:11]_ וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה לַ † דָּ
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...
See! what a gracious prayer-hearing, and prayer-answering God our's is! Sweetly did another Prophet bear testimony to the same. Psalms 130:1. But, Reader! do not lose sight of the typical representati...
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...
The deliverance of Jonah is here in few words described; but how attentively ought we to consider the event? It was an incredible miracle, that Jonah should have continued alive and safe in the bowels...
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...
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO THE FISH,.... Or gave orders to it; he that made it could command it; all creatures are the servants of God, and do his will; what he says is done; he so ordered it by his prov...
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land]. Ver. 10. _And the Lord spake unto the fish_] He spake the word and it was done: he is the great centurion of the world,...
_And the Lord_ This should rather have been rendered, _For the Lord;_ because what follows was not done after the preceding thanksgiving, but before it; and it is mentioned here only to show the cause...
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...
And the Lord, who heard the repentant prayer of His servant, SPAKE UNTO THE FISH, giving it a definite command, AND IT VOMITED OUT JONAH UPON THE DRY LAND, very likely on the coast of Palestine. As fa...
10 Jonah's deliverance may be considered as an instance of God's power over all the creatures. As an instance of God's mercy to a poor penitent, who in distress prays to him: and as a type and figure...
AND, or, as the particle is sometimes rendered, THEN, i.e. after Jonah had prayed, and acted his faith, though in the whale's belly. THE LORD, who made heaven and earth, and commandeth both, who is Go...
Jonah 2:10 LORD H3068 spoke H559 (H8799) fish H1709 vomited H6958 (H8686) Jonah H3124 dry H3004...
JONAH'S PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND GRATITUDE (JONAH 2:1). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restitu...
‘And YHWH spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.' Then the large fish approached land, no doubt under God's direction, and YHWH then spoke to it and it vomited Jonah out on the...
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....
CRITICAL NOTES. JONAH 2:8.] When prayer reaches to God he helps and saves. Salvation is only from Him. Idolaters forfeit their mercy. OBSERVE] Lit. regard, hold to, an intensive form: “pay deference t...
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...
Genesis 1:11; Genesis 1:14; Genesis 1:3; Genesis 1:7; Genesis 1:9;...