Jonah 2:7

"When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; and my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple."

See under Jonah 2:4 for the significance of this reference to the temple in Jerusalem as still standing. There is no dependability whatever in denials that this is a reference to that temple. Griffiths asserted that, "This is probably not the literal Jerusalem temple";[34] but that is the only temple that any of the Jews of that era knew. As Blaikie put it:

"Jonah thinks of the temple (the literal temple), the sacred ark, the mercy seat, the over-shadowing cherubim, the promise of Moses: "There will I meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat."[35]

At first thought, it appears that Jonah was a bit late remembering God; but remember him he did and therefore received the blessing.