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
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