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VerseJonah 2:6. _I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTAINS_] This
also may be literally understood. The fish followed the slanting base
of the mountains, till they terminated in a plain at the botto...
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I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOMS, (LITERALLY “THE CUTTINGS OFF”) OF THE
MOUNTAINS - , the “roots” as the Chaldee and we call them, the
hidden rocks, which the mountains push out, as it were, into the sea,
a...
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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...
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THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. This psalm is a thanksgiving for
deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have
followed Jonah 2:10. The description, however, is quite unsuitable...
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BOTTOMS. roots.
THE EARTH, &c. as for the earth, her bars, &c. Some codices, with one
early printed edition, and Syriac, read "and as to the earth".
WAS. Substitute "were".
FOR EVER. The thought of...
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_bottoms_ Lit., as in margin, " CUTTINGS OFF," the mountains being
poetically conceived of as stretching away their roots or ridges to
the lowest depths of the sea, and there ending or being cut off....
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_LOOKING TOWARD GOD'S HOLY TEMPLE -- JONAH 2:4-6:_ Jonah realized that
he had left God's holy presence. He promised that he would look again
toward God's holy temple and remember Him. Jonah said that...
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DISCOURSE: 1199
JONAH RESTORED FROM THE BELLY OF A FISH
John 2:6, _Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my
God_.
IT is of the highest importance to have seasons of recollection fo...
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THE EARTH WITH HER BARS WAS ABOUT ME, &C.— Houbigant connects the
word rendered _for ever,_ with _bars,_ and reads, _The earth, with her
everlasting bars, was about me,_ &c. But others give the passag...
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GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PRAYER OF JONAH
TEXT: Jonah 2:1-6
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Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly.
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And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jeh...
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars
was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from
corruption, O LORD my God.
I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTA...
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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...
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THE BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTAINS] their roots or foundations lying deep in
the heart of the sea: cp. Milton, 'Hymn on the Nativity:' 'While the
Creator great.. Cast the dark foundations deep.' _WAS_ ABOUT...
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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...
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BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTAINS. — Literally, _ends_ or _cuttings off,_ as,
in margin. So the Vulg. _extrema montium._ Mountains were in the
Hebrew conception the pillars of the world (see Job 9:6; Job 26:11...
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_[Jonah 2:7]_ לְ קִצְבֵ֤י הָרִים֙
יָרַ֔דְתִּי הָ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars
[was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my (d) life from
corruption, O LORD my God.
(d) You have delivered me from the b...
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_Soul, so that I was in danger of being suffocated, Psalms lxviii. 2.
(Calmet) --- Sea. Hebrew, "weeds entangled," &c. (Haydock) --- The
Mediterranean has a great deal of sea weed. He speaks of the ti...
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The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was
cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof
that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Read...
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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...
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_OUT OF THE DEEP PIT_
‘Yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.’
Jonah 2:6 (R.V.)
I. HAVE YOU GOT DOWN INTO THE PIT?—It may be by your own fault. So
it was with Jonah. He would...
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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...
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According to the same sense he says, _I descended to the roots of the
mountains. _But he speaks of promontories, which were nigh the sea; as
though he had said, that he was not cast into the midst of...
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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...
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I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAINS,.... Which are in the midst
of the sea, whither the fish carried him, and where the waters are
deep; or the bottom of rocks and promontories on the shore of...
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars
[was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from
corruption, O LORD my God.
Ver. 6. _I went down to the bottoms of t...
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Jon. 2:6. "The earth with her bars was about me for ever." It alludes
to the bars of a prison, he speaks of himself as having as it were
been in hell. Verse 2, "Out of the belly of hell cried I;" whic...
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_Then I said, I am cast out_, &c. “My first apprehensions were, that
as I had justly forfeited thy favour by my disobedience, so thou
wouldest cast me out of thy protection; yet, upon recollecting mys...
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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...
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I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, the very depths of the
ocean abyss, where the mountains have their foundations; THE EARTH
WITH HER BARS, the walls of the sea-basin, WAS ABOUT ME FOREVER;...
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BOTTOMS:
_ Heb._ cuttings off
CORRUPTION:
Or, the pit...
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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...
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I WENT DOWN, the fish carried him down, TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE
MOUNTAINS; as deep in the sea as are the bottoms of the mountains, or
into those depths out of which might be supposed that mountains were...
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“I went down to the bottoms of the mountains,
The earth with its bars closed on me for ever,
Yet have you brought up my life from the pit,
O YHWH my God.”
He had felt himself sinking lower and lowe...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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_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...
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JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 2:6 YOU BROUGHT. Jonah’s salvation was by
grace alone.
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CRITICAL NOTES.
JONAH 2:5] This strophe opens like the first, sets forth the peril of
death, and describes the thought of miraculous deliverance.
SURROUNDED] Pressed even to the soul (Psalms 69:2; Psa...
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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
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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...
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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...
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Acts 13:33; Deuteronomy 32:22; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Isai
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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...
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I went down — The fish carried him down as deep in the sea as are
the bottoms of the mountains. With her bars — I seemed to be
imprisoned where the bars that secured were as durable as the rocks,
whic...