Jonah 1:17 KJV,ASV

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 1:12-17

Jonah, and the Calvary Message Jonah 1:12-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The message of Calvary is not the message of historical Scriptures alone. Beyond doubt, the final chapters of the Gospels, and the Epistles and the Revelation all speak of the death of Christ, but they never speak of it as of some exigency that came upon Christ Jesus unawares. The four Gospels do, we grant, show a growing antagonism to the Lord on the part of the leaders of the Jews. This hatred grew rapidly as the Cross... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:17

‘And YHWH prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly (innards) of the fish three days and three nights.’ Meanwhile YHWH had not forgotten YHWH and as God of land and sea had already made provision for Jonah by arranging for a large fish to be in the area, so that as Jonah began to drown in the turbulent seas, the fish might swallow him. And when it did he was inside the fish for ‘three days and three nights’, which in Israelite terminology indicated ‘a day or two’. (A... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 1:1-17

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 opposite direction, to Tarshish (p. 381). Why he refused to proclaim such congenial tidings appears only in the sequel ( Jonah 4:2). In a very striking way the author indicates the intellectual limitation of Jonah’ s conception of Yahweh. “ He rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jonah 1:17

Now, Heb. And. Prepared; created at first, say some; but what need that, when a mighty overgrown fish of a double age may do this; by God’s will and appointment it attended the ship, and followed it in the storm, expecting a prey, and ready to receive the prisoner. A great fish; a whale, as we read, Matthew 12:40; others say it was a shark, a fish common in those seas. To swallow up; not to chew upon him, but to take him down whole. Jonah was in the belly of the fish, in safe custody, three... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jonah 1:11-17

CRITICAL NOTES.] Jonah 1:11. The sea] “Not only increasingly tempestuous, but, like a thing alive and obeying its Master’s will, it was holding on its course, its wild waves tossing themselves and marching on in battalions arrayed for the end for which they were sent, pursuing and demanding the runaway slave of God” [Pusey]. Jonah 1:12.] Jonah reads out his doom, conscious of being the cause of suffering and peril. Cast me] Suicide and guilt to have done it himself. I know] i.e. am well aware.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 1:1-17

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 prophet's burial and resurrection. When the Jews asked for a sign He refused it, (i) because it was presumptuous to ask it; (ii) because they were blind to actual signs already given and constantly existing before their eyes; (iii) because the very demand was a proof of deep ungodliness, and the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 1:17

John 1:17 We have no external history of the days spent by the prophet in his living grave. Neither he nor anyone else can tell how far he travelled, how long he rested, what were the aspects of the scenery, how many "small and great beasts" were met on the journey that strange but fruitful journey "through the paths of the seas." But we have a very intense and clear history of his inward life. I. There was evidently a great and sudden quickening of consciousness. The man who speaks in this... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jonah 1:17

great fish No miracle of Scripture has called forth so much unbelief. The issue is not between the doubter and this ancient record, but between the doubter and the Lord Jesus Christ. Matthew 12:39; Matthew 12:40. Science, "falsely so called" 1 Timothy 6:20 failing to take account of the fact that it deals only with the outward phenomena of a fallen race, and of an earth under a curse Genesis 3:17-19 is intolerant of miracles. To faith, and to true science, miracle is what might be expected of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jonah 1:1-17

JonahNow we come to that interesting prophet Jonah.Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me ( Jonah 1:1-2 ).Nineveh, a great city; in fact, the historians say was the largest city in the ancient world. There is a reference later on in Jonah to Nineveh being three-days' journey. What is meant by that is that it took three days to walk through Nineveh. So going from one... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jonah 1:1-17

Jonah 1:1 . The word of the Lord came to Jonah. The word of prophecy, delivered by Christ, the preëxistent Word, as appears from his reasoning with the prophet when angry that Nineveh was spared. Jonah was born at Gath-hepher, and was the eldest of the twelve minor prophets. He was contemporary with Hosea, Joel, and Amos, which shows that he lived to a great age. His father, Amittai, is named because he was a man of note and honour. Of his birth and residence we know nothing more. Some of... read more