[[Jonah-02]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Jonah-01]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Jonah-03]] --- ### yet I will look again toward your holy temple. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Jonah, while inside the fish and facing certain death, predicts that he will survive and be restored to the presence of God in the Jerusalem temple. *Historical context*: Theological commentaries note that this prayer expresses a prophetic certainty (the 'certainty of faith') that Jonah would be delivered from the 'pit' and return to his religious duties, which occurs when he is vomited onto dry land and travels to Nineveh and eventually back to the Israelite context. *Related to*: ### Then Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The physical deliverance of Jonah from the belly of the fish to the shore. *Historical context*: This event serves as the literal fulfillment of Jonah's prayer in [[Jonah-02#v4|Jonah 2:4]] and 2:6, where he anticipated being brought up from the 'pit' and looking again toward the temple. *Related to*: [[Jonah-02#v4|Jonah 2:4]] ### Out of the belly of Sheol I cried... yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Jonah's experience of being 'buried' in the deep for three days and then brought back to life/land serves as a typological prophecy of resurrection. *Historical context*: This is widely recognized by scholars and cited by Jesus in the New Testament ([[Matt-12#v40|Matthew 12:40]]) as the 'Sign of Jonah.' It is regarded as a specific prophecy/type of the three-day burial and subsequent resurrection of Jesus Christ. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy