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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jonah 2 - Introduction

The prayer of Jonah: he is delivered from the fish.

Before Christ 862.

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See also Jonah 2 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    JONAH RUNNING BACK TO GOD Jonah Two __ Jonah found out that running away from God gets a person into serious trouble. Running from God brought him into a storm and into the belly of great fish. Sin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    EXAMINATION CONSIDERATIONS 1. Why would God send a prophet of Israel to a great heathen city like Nineveh? 2. Do you think the literal meaning of Jonah's name, dove, has any symbolical significan...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (b-0) (The title of this Book, 'Micah'), Meaning, Who is like Jah? see ch. 7.18; Psalms 68:4 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JONAH 2 This chapter contains the prayer of Jonah, when in the fish's belly; the time when he prayed, the person he prayed unto, and the place where, are suggested in Jonah 2:1; and t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The prayer of Jonah. (1-9) He is delivered from the fish. (10)...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _HOMILETICS_ IN THE DEEP.—_Chap. 2_ As soon as the prophet was entombed, he _knew_ that he was in a living grave. Then began that new and bitter experience recorded in the prayer of this chapter. We...

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