Jonás 2:1-3:6 RVR1960

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jonah 2:1-10

Renewed Confidence Jonah 2:4 The Prophet is a picture of the backslider, of the man who has somehow failed to fulfil his vows of obedience and loyalty to God. Sometimes it is by reason of cowardice when confronted by duty, as in the case of Jonah; or again, by wilful sin when compelled to choice, as in the case of Judas; or yet again by neglect when enjoined by the necessities of the case as well as by the Divine Word to wholeheartedness, as with Peter, that men depart from God. No experience... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALMJonah 2:1-10AT 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 three days and three nights."After the very natural story which we have followed, this verse obtrudes itself with a shock of unreality and grotesqueness. What an anticlimax! say some; what a clumsy intrusion! So it is if Jonah be taken as an individual. But if we keep in mind that he stands here, not... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jonah 2:1-10

CHAPTER 2 Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance 1. The prayer (John 2:1-9 ) 2. The deliverance (John 2:10 ) John 2:1-9 . Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the prayer is not one offered up for deliverance, but it is a thanksgiving for the accomplished deliverance. But this is answered by the opening verse of this chapter, in which we are told that he prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly. When he found that he had escaped the death he anticipated and that the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jonah 2:1

2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God {a} out of the fish’s belly,(a) Being now swallowed up by death, and seeing no remedy to escape, his faith broke out to the Lord, knowing that out of this very hell he was able to deliver him. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

A MISGUIDED PATRIOT LEARNS OBEDIENCE There is only one instance of Jonah’s prophesying to his own people of Israel, 2 Kings 14:25 . There he made a prediction concerning the restoration of the coasts of Israel, which was fulfilled in the reign of Jeroboam 2 about 800 B.C., showing that he lived earlier than that date. Of his personal history nothing further is known than what is found in this book. Jonah 1:0 Nineveh (Jonah 1:2 ) was the capital of Assyria, and the reason Jonah sought to... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jonah 2:1

CONTENTS We have here the prayer which Jonah offered up to the Lord in his dreadful distress. The Lord's gracious answer also in his deliverance. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Jonah 2:1-3

Let the Reader here learn, and learn with trembling, that sin will bring trouble even to God's dear children. So runs the charter in the covenant of grace. Psalms 89:30-32 . Learn also, that it is nothing for the most part brings the heart home to God, after departures, but the Lord's sanctifying affliction. And let the Reader learn moreover, that the greatest of all afflictions, is the thought in those afflictions, that they are the Lord's. A soul deserted of the Lord, or supposed to be so, is... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1

Fish. Hebrew dag: afterwards daga occurs, ver. 2; (Haydock) on which Leusden observes, the Jews infer that Jonas was first swallowed up by male and then by a female fish, which being full of young he was much straitened, and prayed from the belly of that ( hadaga ) female fish! He alludes to Rabbi Jarchi. (Haydock) --- Thus nar, puer, is put for a girl, to imply that Rebecca was prudent and Dina rambling. (Buxtorf, Tib. 13.) See Kennicott, Dis. 2., p. 417 and 552. --- Noble discoveries! Many... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:1-9

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 sense of God's good-will to us, notwithstanding our offences, opens the lips in prayer, which were closed with the dread of wrath. Also, where he prayed; in the belly of the fish. No place is amiss for prayer. Men may shut us from communion with one another, but not from communion with God. To whom he... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Jonah 2:1-10

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 Luther also remarks, that the thoughts which Jonah had during his confinement in the belly of the sea-monster were afterwards edited by him to form the powerful hymn of worship which we here have before us. v. 1. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God, out of the fish's belly, these thoughts... read more