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.

Now the LORD {H3068} had prepared {H4487} a great {H1419} fish {H1709} to swallow up {H1104} Jonah {H3124}. And Jonah {H3124} was in the belly {H4578} of the fish {H1709} three {H7969} days {H3117} and three {H7969} nights {H3915}.

ADONAI prepared a huge fish to swallow Yonah; and Yonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.

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.

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

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 12:40 (18 votes)

    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 (13 votes)

    For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

  • Matthew 16:4 (11 votes)

    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.

  • Psalms 104:25 (6 votes)

    [So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

  • Psalms 104:26 (6 votes)

    There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.

  • Habakkuk 3:2 (4 votes)

    O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

  • Jonah 4:6 (3 votes)

    And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.