Jonah 2:1-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jonah 2:1-9

God and his servant Jonah had parted in anger, and the quarrel began on Jonah's side; he fled from his country that he might outrun his work; but we hope to see them both together again, and the reconciliation begins on God's side. In the close of the foregoing chapter we found God returning to Jonah in a way of mercy, delivering him from going down to the pit, having found a ransom; in this chapter we find Jonah returning to God in a way of duty; he was called up in the former chapter to pray... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jonah 2:10

We have here Jonah's discharge from his imprisonment, and his deliverance from that death which there he was threatened with?his return, though not to life, for he lived in the fish's belly, yet to the land of the living, for from that he seemed to be quite cut off?his resurrection, though not from death, yet from the grave, for surely ne bf5 ver man was so buried alive as Jonah was in the fish's belly. His enlargement may be considered, 1. As an instance of God's power over all the creatures.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:1

Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly. Though Jonah had been a praying man, being a good man, and a prophet of the Lord, yet it seems he had not prayed for some time; being disobedient to the will of God, he restrained prayer before him; all the while he was going to Joppa he prayed not; and how indeed could he have the face to pray to him, from whose face he was fleeing? and as soon as he was in the ship he fell asleep, and there lay till he was waked by the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:2

And said ,.... Not unto the Lord in prayer, but to others, to whom he communicated what passed between God and him in this time of distress; how he prayed to him, and was heard by him; what a condition he had been in, and how he was delivered out of it; what was his frame of mind while in it, sometimes despairing, and sometimes hoping; and how thankful he was for this salvation, and was determined to praise the Lord for it: I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:3

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas ,.... Though the mariners did this, yet Jonah ascribes it to the Lord; he knew it was he, whom he had sinned against and offended; that he was he that sent the storm after him into the sea; that determined the lot to fall upon him; that it was not only by his permission, but according to his will, that he should be east into it, and overcame the reluctance of the men to it, and so worked upon them that they did it; and therefore... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:4

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight ,.... Or, "from before thine eyes" F4 מנגד עיניך "e regione oculorum tuorum", Montanus, Piscator; "a coram oculis tuis", Drusius, Burkius. ; the Targum, from before thy Word; as David also said in his distress, Psalm 31:22 ; not but that he knew he was in the reach and under the eye of his omniscience, which saw him in the fish's belly, in the depths of the sea, for nothing can hide from that; but he thought he was no longer under the eye... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:5

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul ,.... Either when he was first cast into the sea, which almost suffocated him, and just ready to take away his life, could not breathe for them, as is the case of a man drowning; or these were the waters the fish drew into its belly, in such large quantities, that they compassed him about, even to the endangering of his life there. So the Targum, "the waters surrounded me unto death.' In this Jonah was a type of Christ in his afflictions... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:6

I went down to the bottom of the mountains ,.... Which are in the midst of the sea, whither the fish carried him, and where the waters are deep; or the bottom of rocks and promontories on the shore of the sea; and such vast rocks hanging over the sea, whose bottoms were in it, it seems are on the shore of Joppa, near to which Jonah was cast into the sea, as Egesippus F6 "De excidio", Urb. Hieros. l. 3. c. 20. relates: the earth with her bars was about me for ever ; that is, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:7

When my soul fainted within me ,.... Covered with grief; overwhelmed with sorrow; ready to faint and sink at the sight of his sins; and under a sense of the wrath and displeasure of God, and being forsaken by him: I remembered the Lord ; his covenant and promises, his former mercies and lovingkindness, the gracious experiences he had had of these in times past; he remembered he was a God gracious and merciful, and ready to forgive, healed the backslidings of his people, and still loved... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jonah 2:8

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. They that worship idols, who are nothing, mere vanity and lies, and deceive those that serve them, these forsake the God of their lives, and of their mercies; and so do all such who serve divers lusts and pleasures, and pursue the vanities of this life; and also those who follow the dictates of carnal sense and reason, to the neglect of the will of God, and obedience to his commands; which was Jonah's case, and is, I think, chiefly... read more

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