Jonah 2:10

"And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land."

"Jonah's deliverance is the only pleasant usage of the word vomit in the whole Bible."[41] We do not know, of course, exactly where Jonah was deposited on dry land; but Josephus stated that it was upon the shore of the Euxine sea.[42] If that was true, the great fish passed through the Dardenelles before depositing him, thus following the strong current which is mentioned in Jonah's prayer. Some have quibbled about how Jonah got his information about being in the fish "three days and three nights"; and we cannot give a positive answer to that either; however, as an inspired prophet of God he accurately foretold the calm that would follow his being thrown overboard; and it appears that this was a far more wonderful knowledge than that of the exact time he was inside the fish. We may therefore trust the holy record implicitly.

An ancient poem attributed to Tertullian describes Jonah's deliverance thus:

"His sails ... the intestines of a fish;

Himself shut in by waters, yet untouched;

In the sea's heart, and yet beyond its reach;

Mid wrecks of fleets

Half eaten, and men's carcasses dissolved

In putrid disintegrity: in life

Learning the process of his death; but still-

To be a sign hereafter of the Lord,

To witness was he in his very self,

Not of destruction, but of death's repulse!"[43]