Jonah 1:17
Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up ah. And ah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
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- Matt 12:40 : 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 : 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.
- Luke 11:30 : 30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
- Gen 1:21 : 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every wind fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Ps 104:25-26 : 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the shi: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
- Jonah 4:6 : 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over ah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So ah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
- Hab 3:2 : 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.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Jonah 2:1-33 verses84%
1Then ah 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.
- Jonah 2:9-102 verses83%
9But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
10And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out ah upon the dry land.
- Matt 12:40-412 verses80%
40For 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.
41The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
- Jonah 1:1-1616 verses79%
1Now the word of the LORD came unto ah the son of Amittai, saying,
2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
3But ah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
5Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But ah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
7And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon ah.
8Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
9And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
10Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
12And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
13Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
14Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
15So they took up ah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
16Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
- Jonah 3:1-55 verses74%
1And the word of the LORD came unto ah the second time, saying,
2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3So ah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
4And ah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- Jonah 4:1-22 verses73%
1But it displeased ah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
- Jonah 4:4-107 verses72%
4Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?
5So ah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over ah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So ah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of ah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
9And God said to ah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
10Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
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21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every wind fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
- Ps 104:25-262 verses68%
25So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
26There go the shi: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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3Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
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24These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
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15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
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6And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
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1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
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9These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scas in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
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30For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
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18The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: