Jonah 2:9

Jonah vows to sacrifice with thanksgiving, declaring that salvation belongs to Yahweh. It matters because it states the book's central truth: deliverance is God's work, not man's.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 3:8Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
• Ps 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
• Eccl 5:4–5When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
• Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
• Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
• Ps 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Ps 116:17–18I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
• Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
• Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
• Rev 7:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
• Jer 33:11the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,” says Yahweh.
• John 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
• Job 22:27You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.
• Gen 35:3Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
• Ps 107:22Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.
• Acts 4:12There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”
• Ps 66:13–15I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
• 2 Sam 15:7At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
• Deut 23:18You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

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