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Jonah 2:10
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but I, speaking my thanks aloud, will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed, I will pay. Salvation comes from Adonai !" Then Adonai spoke to the fish, and it vomited Yonah out onto dry land.
And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
The LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Yonah on the dry land.
But I will sacrifice unto Thee with the voice of thanksgiving; that which I have vowed I will pay. Salvation is of the LORD. And the LORD spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.
And the Lorde spake vnto the fish, and it cast out Ionah vpon the dry lande.
And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
And the Lorde spake vnto the fisshe, and it cast out Ionas vpon the drye lande.
But I will sacrifice to thee with the voice of praise and thanksgiving: all that I have vowed I will pay to thee, the Lord of my salvation.
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
So the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
The Lord commanded the fish to vomit up Jonah on the shore. And it did.
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spewed Jonah out upon the dry land.
And the Lord spake vnto the fish, and it vomited out Ionah vpon the drie land.
And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Then God spoke to the fish, and it vomited up Jonah on the seashore.
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and the fish threw up Jonah onto the dry land.
Then the Lord commanded the fish and it disgorged Jonah on dry land.
Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
So the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.
And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land.
And Jehovah spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out onto the dry land.
And ye LORDE spake vnto ye fysh, and it cast out Ionas agayne vpon the drye londe.
And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
So then Yahweh spake unto the fish, - and it vomited out Jonah, upon the dry land.
(2-11) And the Lord spoke to the fish: and it vomited out Jonas upon the dry land.
And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spit Jonah out onto the dry land.
Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah up on the beach, and it did.
Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out of its stomach onto the dry land.
And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.
And the Lord seide to the fisch, and it castide out Jonas `in to the drie lond.
And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.
Then the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Jonah 1:17, Genesis 1:3, Genesis 1:7, Genesis 1:9, Genesis 1:11, Genesis 1:14, Psalms 33:9, Psalms 105:31, Psalms 105:34, Isaiah 50:2, Matthew 8:8, Matthew 8:9, Matthew 8:26, Matthew 8:27
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:21 - great Exodus 2:5 - when she Matthew 17:27 - and take Luke 11:30 - General
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There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord spake unto the fish,.... Or gave orders to it; he that made it could command it; all creatures are the servants of God, and do his will; what he says is done; he so ordered it by his providence, that this fish should come near the shore, and be so wrought upon by his power, that it could not retain Jonah any longer in its belly. It may be rendered h, "then the Lord spake", c. after Jonah had finished his prayer, or put up those ejaculations, the substance of which is contained in the above narrative:
and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land] not upon the shore of the Red sea, as some; much less upon the shore of Nineveh, which was not built upon the seashore, but upon the river Tigris; and the fish must have carried him all round Africa, and part of Asia, to have brought him to the banks of the Tigris; which could not have been done in three days' time, nor in much greater. Josephus i says it was upon the shore of the Euxine sea; but the nearest part of it to Nineveh was one thousand six hundred miles from Tarsus, which the whale, very slow in swimming, cannot be thought to go in three days; besides, no very large fish swim in the Euxine sea, because of the straits of the Propontis, through which they cannot pass, as Bochart k from various writers has proved. It is more likely, as others, that it was on the Syrian shore, or in the bay of Issus, now called the gulf of Lajazzo; or near Alexandria, or Alexandretta, now Scanderoon. But why not on the shore of Palestine? and, indeed, why not near the place from whence they sailed? Huetius l and others think it probable that this case of Jonah gave rise to the story of Arion, who was cast into the sea by the mariners, took up by a dolphin, and carried to Corinth. Jonah's deliverance was a type of our Lord's resurrection from the dead on the third day, Matthew 12:40; and a pledge of ours; for, after this instance of divine power, why should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead?
h So ו is sometimes used, and is so rendered, Psal. lxxviii. 34. Job x. 10. See Noldius, p. 308, 309. i Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 2. k Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 12. col. 744. l Demonstr. Evangel. prop. 4. p. 294.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the Lord spake unto the fish - Psalms 148:8. Wind and storm fulfill His word. The irrational creatures have wills. God had commanded the prophet, and he disobeyed. God, in some way, commanded the fish. He laid His will upon it, and the fish immediately obeyed; a pattern to the prophet when He released him. “God’s will, that anything should be completed, is law and fulfillment and hath the power of law. Not that Almighty God commanded the fish, as He does us or the holy angels, uttering in its mind what is to be done, or inserting into the heart the knowledge of what He chooseth. But if He be said to command irrational animals or elements or any part of the creation, this signifieth the law and command of His will. For all things yield to His will, and the mode of their obedience is to us altogether ineffable, but known to Him.” “Jonah,” says Chrysostom, “fled the land, and fled not the displeasure of God. He fled the land, and brought a tempest on the sea: and not only himself gained no good from flight, but brought into extreme peril those also who took him on board. When he sailed, seated in the vessel, with sailors and pilot and all the tackling, he was in the most extreme peril: when, sunk in the sea, the sin punished and laid aside, he entered that vast vessel, the fish’s belly, he enjoyed great fearlessness; that thou mayest learn that, as no ship availeth to one living in sin, so when freed from sin, neither sea destroyeth, nor beasts consume. The waves received him, and choked him not; the vast fish received him and destroyed him not; but both the huge animal and the clement gave back their deposit safe to God, and by all things the prophet learned to be mild and tender, not to be more cruel than the untaught mariners or wild waves or animals.
For the sailors did not give him up at first, but after manifold constraint; and the sea and the wild animal guarded him with much benevolence, God disposing all these things. He returned then, preached, threatened, persuaded, saved, awed, amended, stablished, through that one first preaching. For he needed not many days, nor continuous exhortation; but, speaking these words he brought all to repentance. Wherefore God did not lead him straight from the vessel to the city; but the sailors gave him over to the sea, the sea to the vast fish, the fish to God, God to the Ninevites, and through this long circuit brought back the fugitive; that He might instruct all, that it is impossible to escape the hands of God. For come where a man may, dragging sin after him, he will undergo countless troubles. Though man be not there, nature itself on all sides will oppose him with great vehemence.”
“Since the elect too at times strive to be sharp-witted, it is well to bring forward another wise man, and show how the craft of mortal man is comprehended in the Inward Counsels. For Jonah wished to exercise a prudent sharpness of wit, when, being sent to preach repentance to the Ninevites, in that he feared that, if the Gentiles were chosen, Judaea would be forsaken, he refused to discharge the office of preaching. He sought a ship, chose to flee to Tarshish; but immediately a tempest arises, the lot is cast, to know for whose fault the sea was troubled. Jonah is taken in his fault, plunged in the deep, swallowed by the fish, and carried by the vast beast thither whither he set at naught the command to go. See how the tempest found God’s runaway, the lot binds him, the sea receives him, the beast encloses him, and, because he sets himself against obeying his Maker, he is carried a culprit by his prison house to the place whither he had been sent.
When God commanded, man would not minister the prophecy; when God enjoined, the beast cast forth the prophet. The Lord then “taketh the wise in their own craftiness,” when He bringeth back to the service of His own will, that whereby man’s will contradicts Him.” “Jonah, fleeing from the perils of preaching and salvation of souls, fell into peril of his own life. When, in the ship, he took on himself the peril of all, he saved both himself and the ship. He fled as a man; he exposed himself to peril, as a prophet” . “Let them think so, who are sent by God or by a superior to preach to heretics or to pagan. When God calleth to an office or condition whose object it is to live for the salvation of others, He gives grace and means necessary or expedient to this end. For so the sweet and careful ordering of His Providence requireth. Greater peril awaiteth us from God our Judge, if we flee His calling as did Jonah, if we use not the talents entrusted to us to do His will and to His glory. We know the parable of the servant who buried the talent, and was condemned by the Lord.”
And it vomited out Jonah - Unwilling, but constrained, it cast him forth as a burden to it . “From the lowest depths of death, Life came forth victorious.” “He is swallowed by the fish, but is not consumed; and then calls upon God, and (marvel!) on the third day is given back with Christ.” “What it prefigured, that that vast animal on the third day gave back alive the prophet which it had swallowed, no need to ask of us, since Christ explained it. As then Jonah passed from the ship into the fish’s belly, so Christ from the wood into the tomb or the depth of death. And as he for those imperiled in the tempest, so Christ for those tempest-tossed in this world. And as Jonah was first enjoined to preach to the Ninevites, but the preaching of Jonah did not reach them before the fish cast him forth, so prophecy was sent beforehand to the Gentiles, but did not reach them until after the resurrection of Christ” . “Jonah prophesied of Christ, not so much in words as by a suffering of his own; yet more openly than if he had proclaimed by speech His Death and Resurrection. For why was he received into the fish’s belly, and given back the third day, except to signify that Christ would on the third day return from the deep of hell?”
Irenaeus looks upon the history of Jonah as the imaging of man’s own history . “As He allowed Jonah to be swallowed by the whale, not that he should perish altogether, but that, being vomited forth, he might the more be subdued to God, and the more glorify God Who had given him such unlooked for deliverance, and bring those Ninevites to solid repentance, converting them to the Lord Who would free them from death, terrified by that sign which befell Jonah (as Scripture says of them, ‘They turned every man from his evil way, etc. ...’) so from the beginning, God allowed man to be swallowed up by that vast Cetos who was the author of the transgression, not that he should altogether perish but preparing a way of salvation, which, as foresignified by the word in Jonah, was formed for those who had the like faith as to the Lord as Jonah, and with him confessed, “I fear the Lord, etc.” that so man, receiving from God unlooked for salvation, might rise from the dead and glorify God, etc. ... This was the longsuffering of God, that man might pass through all, and acknowledge his ways; then, coming to the resurrection and knowing by trial from what he had been delivered, might be forever thankful to God, and, having received from Him the gift of incorruption, might love Him more (for he to whom much is forgiven, loveth much) and know himself, that he is mortal and weak, and understand the Lord, that He is in such wise Mighty and Immortal, that to the mortal He can give immortality and to the things of time eternity.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse :-. And the Lord spake unto the fish — That is, by his influence the fish swam to shore, and cast Jonah on the dry land. So the whole was a miracle from the beginning to the end; and we need not perplex ourselves to find out literal interpretations; such as, "When Jonah was thrown overboard he swam for his life, earnestly praying God to preserve him from drowning; and by his providence he was thrown into a place of fish-a fishing cove, where he was for a time entangled among the weeds, and hardly escaped with his life; and when safe, he composed this poetic prayer, in metaphorical language, which some have wrongly interpreted, by supposing that he was swallowed by a fish; when dag should have been understood, as a place of fish, or fishing creek," c. Now I say the original has no such meaning in the Bible: and this gloss is plainly contrary to the letter of the text to all sober and rational modes of interpretation; and to the express purpose for which God appears to have wrought this miracle, and to which Jesus Christ himself applies it. For as Jonah was intended for a sign to the Jews of the resurrection of Christ, they were to have the proof of this semiosis, in his lying as long in the heart of the earth as the prophet was in the belly of the fish; and all interpretations of this kind go to deny both the sign and the thing signified. Some men, because they cannot work a miracle themselves, can hardly be persuaded that GOD can do it.
The text, and the use made of it by Christ, most plainly teach us that the prophet was literally swallowed by a fish, by the order of God; and that by the Divine power he was preserved alive, for what is called three days and three nights, in the stomach of the fish; and at the conclusion of the above time that same fish was led by the unseen power of God to the shore, and there compelled to eject the prey that he could neither kill nor digest. And how easy is all this to the almighty power of the Author and Sustainer of life, who has a sovereign, omnipresent, and energetic sway in the heavens and in the earth. But foolish man will affect to be wise; though, in such cases, he appears as the recently born, stupid offspring of the wild ass. It is bad to follow fancy, where there is so much at stake. Both ancients and moderns have grievously trifled with this prophet's narrative; merely because they could not rationally account for the thing, and were unwilling (and why?) to allow any miraculous interference.
