Jonás 2:1-3:6 RVR1960

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Jonah 2:1-10

CHAPTER 2[Jonah’s Hymn of Thanksgiving and Praise for his Deliverance from the Bowels of Fish.—C.E.]1 Now [And] the Lord [Jehovah] had prepared1 [appointed] a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.2 And Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish and said,3 I cried to Jehovah out of my distress:And He answered me:Out of the womb of Sheol2 I cried:Thou heardest my voice.4 Thou castedst me into the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

a Prayer from the Depths John 1:17 ; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover of men. To plunge beneath the wave is to fall into His arms. More than once the body of a man has been found in the belly of a shark in the Mediterranean. Even those who hold that this story is an elaborate parable must admit that it is probably founded on such a fact. Our Lord’s endorsement of this book... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jonah 2:1-10

In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of Psalms. It is exactly the kind of cry which a man familiar with the sacred penitential writings of his people would utter in such circumstances. Perhaps the most remarkable note about the prayer is its note of triumph. While it is distinctly asserted that he prayed out of the fish's belly, and... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Jonah 2:1-9

Jonah, in the School of Affliction Jonah 2:1-9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the heart of the earth, we think of the "underworld"; the abode of the wicked, and the former "paradise" of the saved of Old Testament fame. A brief study of these things will furnish us a profitable theme for the introduction of today's study. 1. The abode of the righteous dead in the Old Testament.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:1

‘Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his God out of the fish’s innards.’ All Jonah probably knew was that he was somewhere safe where he could breathe and pray. It would only be later that he discovered that he was in the innards of a large fish. And knowing that he had been saved from certain death he was no doubt confident that God would sort everything out. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:1-10

Jonah’s Prayer Of Repentance And Gratitude (Jonah 2:1-10 ). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restitution to His favour, ‘I am cast out from your sight, yet will I look again towards your holy Temple’, and again, ‘Those who regard lying vanities (Jonah in his flight), forsake their own mercy, but I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving, I will pay what I have vowed.’ It is... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jonah 2:1

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 2:1

Then, Heb. And, at that time when he lay by the heels a close prisoner in a prison, whence none before or since ever came out alive, Jonah prayed; sent his petition in all humble and submissive manner unto God: Jonah, wonderfully preserved alive, and in full exercise of his judgment and memory, now betakes himself to prayer, and in this exerciseth his graces; his soul follows hard after God, when he was shut up in this dungeon. Unto the Lord, that was angry, and now was punishing of Jonah; the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jonah 2:1-4

CRITICAL NOTES. Prayed] Really praised. His] not only to Jehovah as the sailors did. “He shows his faith by adoring Him as his God” [Burk], The structure of this hymn, composed like many Psalms, and filled with allusions to them, falls into three strophes (Jonah 2:4; Jonah 2:6; Jonah 2:8): each of which rises from distress to deliverance and hope [cf. Lange]. Jonah 2:2. Cried] More definite than Psalms 16:1; Psalms 120:1. Belly] Womb of Sheol, i.e. the peril of death; snares of death (Psalms... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1-10

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