Jonah 2:1, The prayer of Jonah; Jonah 2:10, He is delivered out of the belly of the fish.
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Jonah 2
Jonah 2 — Overview
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Jonah 2 — OverviewJonah 2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we
should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters
of the sea he would be consumed in the bowels of that leviathan, "out…Jonah 2 — OverviewJonah 2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis 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 Jon 2:1; and the latter described as a place of great…Jonah 2:1-9Jonah 2:1-9 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleGod and his servant Jonah had parted in anger, and the quarrel began on
Jonah's side; he fled from his country that he might outrun his work;
but we hope to see them both together again, and the reconciliation…Jonah 2:1Jonah 2:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThen Jonah prayed. These were his feelings when he sank in the waters and while he lay in his mysterious prison; he may have put them into their metrical form after his deliverance. The grammatical arrangement, and…Jonah 2:1Jonah 2:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryOut of the depths.
Never surely was prayer offered in so strange a place as this! Men have often prayed upon the sea, but Jonah is represented as praying from the ocean depths.
I. NO PLACE IS UNSUITABLE FOR PRAYER. It…Jonah 2:1-4Jonah 2:1-4 · The Pulpit CommentaryA unique oratory.
"Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God," etc. The keynote of this passage is struck in the first verse. It is the fish, by God's hand made Jonah's preserver instead of his destroyer, that inspires…