Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE.
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Jonah 2:1-10
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Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:1-9Jonah 2:1-9 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryObserve when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God's good-will to…Jonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. (b. c. 840.)Jonah 2:1-9 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJONAH'S PRAYER; THE PROPHET IN THE FISH'S BELLY. (B. C. 840.) 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…The Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1-9Jonah 2:1-9 · The Pulpit Commentary1. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which he sees a pledge of further deliverance.The Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1-10Jonah 2:1-10 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1Jonah 2:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThen Jonah prayed. These were his feelings when he sank in the waters and while he lay in his mysterious prison; he may have put them into their metrical form after his deliverance. The grammatical arrangement, and espe…The Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1Jonah 2:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryOut of the depths. Never surely was prayer offered in so strange a place as this! Men have often prayed upon the sea, but Jonah is represented as praying from the ocean depths. I. NO PLACE IS UNSUITABLE FOR PRAYER. It i…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Jonah 2:1-9Observe when Jonah prayed. When he was in trouble, under the tokens of God's displeasure against him for sin: when we are in affliction we must pray. Being kept alive by miracle, he prayed. A sense of God's good-will to…Matthew HenrycommentaryJonah's Prayer; The Prophet in the Fish's Belly. (b. c. 840.)JONAH'S PRAYER; THE PROPHET IN THE FISH'S BELLY. (B. C. 840.) 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…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1Out of the depths. Never surely was prayer offered in so strange a place as this! Men have often prayed upon the sea, but Jonah is represented as praying from the ocean depths. I. NO PLACE IS UNSUITABLE FOR PRAYER. It i…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1-91. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which he sees a pledge of further deliverance.Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1-10EXPOSITIONJoseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1Then Jonah prayed. These were his feelings when he sank in the waters and while he lay in his mysterious prison; he may have put them into their metrical form after his deliverance. The grammatical arrangement, and espe…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1-7De profundis: distress and prayer. "Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly," etc. Unexampled position of Jonah—no details given, and hints somewhat obscure; evidently he retained measure of cons…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jonah 2:1-4A unique oratory. "Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God," etc. The keynote of this passage is struck in the first verse. It is the fish, by God's hand made Jonah's preserver instead of his destroyer, that inspires th…Joseph S. Exell and contributors