Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- BSB And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
- NKJV So the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.
- NASB Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.
- NLT Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Matt 8:26–27He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
- Ps 33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
- Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- Gen 1:3God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- Matt 8:8–9The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
- Jonah 1:17Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
- Ps 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
- Gen 1:11God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth”; and it was so.
- Ps 105:31He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.
- Gen 1:7God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
- Gen 1:14God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
- Gen 1:9God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
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Three days in the belly of the fish is the sign Jesus gave of his own death and resurrection (Matt 12:40); and God's mercy on pagan Nineveh foreshadows the gospel going to the nations.
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