Jonah 2 (KJV)

Jonah kneels in a shadowed cavernous space within the great fish, surrounded by dark water, tangled seaweed, and a narrow shaft of light from above. — CHAPTER VISUAL
Jonah 2 — From the depths Jonah remembers the LORD, gives thanks for deliverance, and confesses that salvation belongs to Him.
About this illustration
The fish’s interior is an artistic reconstruction shaped by Jonah’s prayer imagery of depths, seaweed, and barred earth. The scene does not import his release onto dry land as its focal event.
Scripture basis: Jonah 2:1–10

1Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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Archaeological Evidence

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Third century AD

Crosby–Schøyen Codex MS 193: Jonah and 1 Peter in Coptic

The late-third- or early-fourth-century Crosby–Schøyen Codex is a Sahidic single-quire papyrus book preserving the oldest known complete Jonah and 1 Peter beside paschal writings.

Jonah 2:1–10 · 1 Peter 2:19–25 · 1 Peter 3:18–22

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Jonah 1:17 · Jonah 2:10

The Sign of Jonah

Jonah remains inside the great fish for three days and nights before being delivered alive onto land.

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