Jonah 2:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

Jonah 2:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
Psalms 11:4
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Psalms 143:5
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

God and his servant Jonah had parted in anger, and the quarrel began on Jonah’s side; he fled from his country that he might outrun his work; but we hope to see them both together again, and the reconciliation begins on God’s side. In the close of the foregoing chapter we found God returning to Jonah in a way of mercy, delivering him from going down to the pit, having found a ransom; in this chapt…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6. bottoms of ... mountains--their extremities where they terminate in the hidden depths of the sea. Compare Psa 18:7, “the foundations of the hills” (Psa 18:15). earth with her bars was about me--Earth, the land of the living, is (not “was”) shut against me. for ever--so far as any effort of mine can deliver me. yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption--rather, “Thou bringest ... from the…