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Jon 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the LORD		Jon 4:6; Gen 1:21; Psa 104:25,26; Hab 3:2
in		Mat 12:40; Mat 16:4; Luk 11:30
belly		Heb. bowels.

Correlating Passages

the LORD

	Jon 4:6	And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made [it] to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
	Gen 1:21	And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
	Psa 104:25	[So is] this great and wide sea, wherein [are] things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
	Psa 104:26	There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
	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.

	Mat 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.
	Mat 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.
	Luk 11:30	For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jonah 1:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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