Jonah 2:1

Then Jonah prayed to God from inside that fish. He talked about the things that happened to him in the water before that fish came.

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In The King James Version

Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,

In Context

2He said, “Yahweh, when I got trouble, I called out to you, and you answered me. I nearly died, but I called out for help, and you listened to me.

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Cross References

Acts 16:24So the jail boss put them in a little room that was right in the middle of that jail. He made them sit down on the ground, and then he locked their ankles between 2 big bits of wood, so that Paul and Silas couldn’t move their legs.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 2:1

We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of the sea he would be consumed in the bowels of that leviathan, "out of whose mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire, and whose breath kindles coals," Job xli. 19 , 21 . But God brings his people through fire, and through water ( Ps. lxvi. 12 ); and by his power, behold, Jonah the prophet is yet alive, and is heard of again. In this chapter God hears from him, for we find… Read the whole commentary →

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