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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jonah 2:9

But I will. — The prophet, however, is not among such. He has sinned, but is still a member of the covenant people, and by sacrifice can be formally restored to that favour which repentance has regained.

Salvation is of the Lord. — Or, Deliverance is Jehovah’s. (Comp. Psalms 3:8.)

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See also Jonah 2:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jonah 2:9. _BUT I WILL SACRIFICE UNTO THEE_] I will make a sincere vow, which, as soon as my circumstances will permit, I will faithfully execute; and therefore he adds, "I will pay that which I...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT (AND) WITH THE VOICE OF THANKSGIVING WILL I (WOULD I FAIN) SACRIFICE UNTO THEE; WHAT I HAVE VOWED, I WOULD PAY - He does not say, I will, for it did not depend upon him. Without a further miracle...

  • 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

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _But I_ in contrast to my former self, and to the whole body of those of whom I then was one, will humbly claim and gratefully acknowledge my share in "my Mercy." "I will sacrifice unto Thee," &c. _Sa...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1200 JONAH’S REFLECTIONS IN THE WHALE’S BELLY John 2:7. _When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. They that observe ly...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT I WILL SACRIFICE UNTO THEE— Not to other gods, as the mariners did to their deities. _Salvation is of the Lord,_ and not of those false gods to whom these idolatrous sailors (except in the instanc...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    GOD'S MESSENGER RUNNING TO GODTHE PROMISE OF JONAH TEXT: Jonah 2:7-9 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple. 8 They that reg...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. I WILL SACRIFICE UNTO THEE WITH THE VOICE OF THANKSGIVING. In the believi...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING This beautiful song of deliverance shows clearly the familiarity of the writer with earlier Psalms. It reflects very plainly the horror inspired by the sea in the minds of a...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Jonah 2:10]_ וַ אֲנִ֗י בְּ קֹ֤ול תֹּודָה֙...

  • 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

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • 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...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jonah therefore rightly adds, _But I, with the voice of praise, will sacrifice to thee; _as though he said While men as it were banish themselves from God, by giving themselves up to errors, I will sa...

  • 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

    BUT I WILL SACRIFICE UNTO THEE WITH THE VOICE OF THANKSGIVING,.... Not only offer up a legal sacrifice in a ceremonial way, when he came to Jerusalem; but along with it the spiritual sacrifice of prai...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that] that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD. Ver. 9. _But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving_...

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

    _They that observe lying vanities_, &c. They that seek to, or trust in, idols, (often called by the names of _vanity_ and lies,) _forsake their own mercy_ Forsake him who alone is able to show mercy t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • 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

    Jonah here doth intimate his adherence to God, his assurance that he should find God to be a. fountain of mercy to him, that God would hear his prayer. I WILL SACRIFICE; in most solemn manner recogniz...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jonah 2:9 sacrifice H2076 (H8799) voice H6963 thanksgiving H8426 pay H7999 (H8762) vowed H5087 (H8804) Salvation...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Those who regard lying vanities, Forsake their own mercy, But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving, I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of YHWH.” But he acknowledged that...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • 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

    2 Samuel 15:7; Acts 4:12; Deuteronomy 23:18; Ecclesiastes 5:4;...

  • 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

    Vowed — Which probably was to go to Nineveh, and preach what God commanded him. The Lord — He only can save....

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