Jonah 1:17

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
KJV

And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
ASV

And Jehovah appointeth a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah is in the bowels of the fish three days and three nights.
YLT

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In this verse

People Jonah

Symbols Fish

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

Matt 12:40 · allusion

"For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

Jonah: three days in the great fish — Jesus' sign of Jonah

Prophecy

Typology

Miracle

Jonah and the Great Fish

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Antiquities of the Jews

Covers the ministry of Elisha, the dynasty of Jehu, the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah, the prophets Jonah and Isaiah, and the fall of Samaria to the Assyrians in 722 BC. Josephus preserves traditions about Jonah and the Ninevites that supplement the biblical book.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament

Cross-references

1Cor 15:4 — And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Hab 3:2 — O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
Jonah 2:10 — And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
Luke 11:30 — For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
Matt 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matt 12:40 — For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matt 16:4 — A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Matt 16:4 — A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
Matt 17:27 — Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: tha
Ps 104:25 — So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.