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Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," [10] but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going ...
Jonah is miraculously saved by being swallowed by a "great fish", in whose belly he spends three days and three nights. [19] While inside the great fish, Jonah prays to God in thanksgiving and commits to paying what he has vowed. [20] Jonah's prayer has been compared with some of the Psalms, [21] and with the Song of Hannah in 1 Samuel 2:1-10. [22]
The fish which swallowed Jonah had been created in the very beginning of the world in order to perform this work. [17] Therefore, this fish had so large a mouth and throat that Jonah found it as easy to pass into its belly as he would have found it to enter the portals of a very large synagogue . [ 18 ]
In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the fish which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which eats one whale each day. [b] [citation needed] The body of the Leviathan, especially his eyes, possesses great illuminating power.
James Bartley (1870–1909) is the central figure in a late nineteenth-century story according to which he was swallowed whole by a sperm whale.He was found still living days later in the stomach of the whale, which was dead from harpooning.
For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Analysis [ edit ]
The biblical fish category includes marine mammals. ("Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones..." Lamentations 4:3 A.V. & D.V.) Jonah's fish: According to the Book of Jonah, a "great fish" swallowed the prophet Jonah (Jonah 1:17 A.V.), and he was in its belly for three days, before being vomited up.
Jonah is a prophet described in the scriptures of Abrahamic religions, primarily in the Book of Jonah, as having been swallowed by a large fish. Jonah may also refer to: Film and television