Jonah 1:17 KJV — MannaFest

Jonah 1:17

Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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ASV

And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

WEB

Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

YLT

And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.

DBT

And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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Jonah — A reluctant prophet fleeing from Nineveh, a storm, a great fish, a repentant city, and a bush. The only prophet whose book is entirely narrative — and whose complaint against God's mercy is the book's real subject.

Author: The book is anonymous; Jonah son of Amittai is the subject (1:1; cf. 2 Kings 14:25)
Date: Jonah's historical ministry c. 8th c. BC under Jeroboam II; book's composition disputed

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Son of ManThree days and three nights in the fish — the sign of Jonah (Matt 12:40).

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Matthew 12:40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Luke 11:30
For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Matthew 16:4
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
1 Corinthians 15:4
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Psalms 104:25–26
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

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The honour God put upon Jonah, in giving him a commission to go and prophesy against Nineveh. Jonah signifies a dove, a proper name for all God's prophets, all his people, who ought to be harmless as doves, and to mourn as doves for the sins and calamities of the land. His father's name was Amittai--My truth; for God's prophets should be sons of truth.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

An illustrious type of Christ, who was buried and rose again according to the scriptures ( 1 Cor. xv. 4 ), according to this scripture, for, as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so was the Son of man three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, Matt. xii. Jonah's burial was a figure of Christ's.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

prepared a great fish--not created specially for this purpose, but appointed in His providence, to which all creatures are subservient. The fish, through a mistranslation of Mt 12:40, was formerly supposed to be a whale; there, as here, the original means "a great fish." The whale's neck is too narrow to receive a man.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

A great fish - The Hebrew word is, numbered, has appointed him for Jonah's receiver and deliverer. God has the command of all his creatures, and can make any of them serve his designs of mercy to his people.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Typology of ChristThree days and nights in the deep — the one sign Jesus gave of His death and resurrection.

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