Jonah 2:1 and paragraph summary
2:1 - Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish
The preceding verse must be taken
into account when reading this verse. The three days and nights transpired
before Jonah finally prayed to the LORD. Jonah's location for this prayer is
the stomach of the fish. Jonah finally comes to his senses after all of the
Lord's discipline.
Another thought is that after
three days and nights, Jonah realized that God would not kill him. This might
make more sense given the rest of the book. Jonah doesn't so much want to obey;
he just doesn't want to spend any more time in the environment of the fish
given that God would continue to sustain his life for an unknown amount of
time.
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