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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jonah 2:6

The bottoms of the mountains] their roots or foundations lying deep in the heart of the sea: cp. Milton, 'Hymn on the Nativity:' 'While the Creator great.. Cast the dark foundations deep.' Was about] RV 'closed upon.' The thought is that as he sinks he goes far from the earth, the home of the living, and its doors are closed and barred against him for ever. No return to the light and sunshine seems possible. Corruption] RV 'the pit,' i.e. of Sheol, as in Jon 2:2.

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See also Jonah 2:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    VerseJonah 2:6. _I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTAINS_] This also may be literally understood. The fish followed the slanting base of the mountains, till they terminated in a plain at the botto...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOMS, (LITERALLY “THE CUTTINGS OFF”) OF THE MOUNTAINS - , the “roots” as the Chaldee and we call them, the hidden rocks, which the mountains push out, as it were, into the sea, a...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2 Jonah's Prayer and Deliverance _ 1. The prayer (John 2:1) _ 2. The deliverance (John 2:10) John 2:1. Some expositors have called attention to the fact that the prayer is not one offered u...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. This psalm is a thanksgiving for deliverance from peril, and therefore, if spoken by Jonah, should have followed Jonah 2:10. The description, however, is quite unsuitable...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BOTTOMS. roots. THE EARTH, &c. as for the earth, her bars, &c. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Syriac, read "and as to the earth". WAS. Substitute "were". FOR EVER. The thought of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _bottoms_ Lit., as in margin, " CUTTINGS OFF," the mountains being poetically conceived of as stretching away their roots or ridges to the lowest depths of the sea, and there ending or being cut off....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _LOOKING TOWARD GOD'S HOLY TEMPLE -- JONAH 2:4-6:_ Jonah realized that he had left God's holy presence. He promised that he would look again toward God's holy temple and remember Him. Jonah said that...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1199 JONAH RESTORED FROM THE BELLY OF A FISH John 2:6, _Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God_. IT is of the highest importance to have seasons of recollection fo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE EARTH WITH HER BARS WAS ABOUT ME, &C.— Houbigant connects the word rendered _for ever,_ with _bars,_ and reads, _The earth, with her everlasting bars, was about me,_ &c. But others give the passag...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PRAYER OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:1-6 1 Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly. 2 And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jeh...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTA...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WHO DISAGREED WITH GOD JONAH _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 While Jonah was inside the fish, he prayed to the Lord his God. Verse 1 Jonah learned that nobody can get away from God (Psalm...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTAINS. — Literally, _ends_ or _cuttings off,_ as, in margin. So the Vulg. _extrema montium._ Mountains were in the Hebrew conception the pillars of the world (see Job 9:6; Job 26:11...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jonah 2:7]_ לְ קִצְבֵ֤י הָרִים֙ יָרַ֔דְתִּי הָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE GREAT FISH AND WHAT IT MEANS-THE PSALM John 2:1 AT 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 thre...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PRAYER FROM THE DEPTHS John 1:17; John 2:1-10 The great fish was probably a shark. He who sent the storm prepared the fish. Life is full of contrivances on the part of the great Lover of men. To pl...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the midst of the strange and awful circumstances in which he found himself, Jonah poured out his soul in anguish to Jehovah. The prayer as chronicled for us consists of quotations from the Book of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my (d) life from corruption, O LORD my God. (d) You have delivered me from the b...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Soul, so that I was in danger of being suffocated, Psalms lxviii. 2. (Calmet) --- Sea. Hebrew, "weeds entangled," &c. (Haydock) --- The Mediterranean has a great deal of sea weed. He speaks of the ti...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The words of Jonah are very remarkable when he saith, though he was cast out of the Lord's sight, yet he would look again. A plain proof that he had looked before. But what I particularly beg the Read...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The most cursory reader can hardly avoid seeing that Jonah has a peculiar place among the prophets. There is none more intensely Jewish; yet his prophecy was...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _OUT OF THE DEEP PIT_ ‘Yet hast Thou brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.’ Jonah 2:6 (R.V.) I. HAVE YOU GOT DOWN INTO THE PIT?—It may be by your own fault. So it was with Jonah. He would...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Jonah the Penitent I. INTRODUCTION A. We left off in our last study with Jonah being swallowed by the "great fish" and that is where we will pick up our study this morning - but before we do, I woul...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    According to the same sense he says, _I descended to the roots of the mountains. _But he speaks of promontories, which were nigh the sea; as though he had said, that he was not cast into the midst of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have seen that the judgments which fall upon the unfaithful witness, being at length acknowledged by himself, are the means through which the name of Jehovah becomes known and worshipped among the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WENT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAINS,.... Which are in the midst of the sea, whither the fish carried him, and where the waters are deep; or the bottom of rocks and promontories on the shore of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God. Ver. 6. _I went down to the bottoms of t...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Jon. 2:6. "The earth with her bars was about me for ever." It alludes to the bars of a prison, he speaks of himself as having as it were been in hell. Verse 2, "Out of the belly of hell cried I;" whic...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then I said, I am cast out_, &c. “My first apprehensions were, that as I had justly forfeited thy favour by my disobedience, so thou wouldest cast me out of thy protection; yet, upon recollecting mys...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, the very depths of the ocean abyss, where the mountains have their foundations; THE EARTH WITH HER BARS, the walls of the sea-basin, WAS ABOUT ME FOREVER;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JONAH'S PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. The words, as here recorded, are not a prayer for deliverance, but a thanksgiving to the Lord for the deliverance already effected. From this we see, as Lut...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BOTTOMS: _ Heb._ cuttings off CORRUPTION: Or, the pit...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Observe 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 sen...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WENT DOWN, the fish carried him down, TO THE BOTTOMS OF THE MOUNTAINS; as deep in the sea as are the bottoms of the mountains, or into those depths out of which might be supposed that mountains were...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 2:6 down H3381 (H8804) moorings H7095 mountains H2022 earth H776 bars H1280 forever H5769 up H5927 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, The earth with its bars closed on me for ever, Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, O YHWH my God.” He had felt himself sinking lower and lowe...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JONAH'S PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND GRATITUDE (JONAH 2:1). Finding himself rescued from drowning, Jonah expressed his gratitude to God, and, probably puzzled as to where he was, called on God for restitu...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    JONAH 1-4 Jonah buried and risen a type of Christ. I. More than once in the course of our Lord's ministry, among different persons and for different objects, He makes use of the similitude of the pro...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jonah 2:1. _Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly._ What a strange place for prayer! Surely then is the only prayer that ever went up to God out of a fish's belly. Jonah fou...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jonah's prayer out of the depths and its answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jonah. CONCLUSION: Though we bring affliction upon ourselves by our sins, yet if we pray in humility and godly sincerity,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jonah 2:4. _Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight._ After what we have heard of the misguided and offending conduct of Jonah, we need not wonder to find him sinking into deep dejection and distress....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish’s belly._ THE RETURN TO GOD The object in setting forth the history of Jonah is to show the nature of his sin, the truth of his penitence, and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JONAH—NOTE ON JONAH 2:6 YOU BROUGHT. Jonah’s salvation was by grace alone. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. JONAH 2:5] This strophe opens like the first, sets forth the peril of death, and describes the thought of miraculous deliverance. SURROUNDED] Pressed even to the soul (Psalms 69:2; Psa...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JONAH 2:1 Part I. JONAH'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE. JONAH 2:1 1. Jonah, in the belly of the fish, offers a prayer of thanksgiving for his rescue from death by drowning, in which h

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER IV. JONAH IN HIS DISTRESS AN EXAMPLE OF SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION IT is always interesting, and may be profitable as well as interesting, to mark the workings of a soul when struggling with the st...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly (Jonah 2:1), Jonah must have been a stubborn man indeed that he would wait three days and three nights before he would begin to pray. H...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 13:33; Deuteronomy 32:22; Habakkuk 3:10; Habakkuk 3:6; Isai

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JONAH, IN THE SCHOOL OF AFFLICTION Jonah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When we think of Jonah in the whale's belly, we are thinking of the Lord in the heart of the earth. When we think of Christ in the he...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I went down — The fish carried him down as deep in the sea as are the bottoms of the mountains. With her bars — I seemed to be imprisoned where the bars that secured were as durable as the rocks, whic...

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