Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Jonah 2:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 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 h…
- 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 …
- Psalms 77:10
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- Psalms 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
- Lamentations 3:21
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
- 2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
- Psalms 65:4
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of …
- Psalms 42:11
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my counte…
More to meet God in Jonah
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.