Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 2:10

10 ¶ And the LORD spake unto the fish , and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land .

Or, as the particle is sometimes rendred, then i. e. after Ionah had prayed, and acted his Faith though in the Whales belly.

Who made Heaven and Earth, and commandeth both, who is God of Salvation.

Commanded, signified it to be his pleasure, as the same word prepared the Fish and brought it to give attendance to receive the Prisoner, so now it doth discharge the Keeper, and requires him to set his Prisoner at liberty.

Though Fishes are destitute of Reason and understand not as man, yet they have ears to hear their Creator, and readily obey.

It presently obeys the word, it could no longer keep Ionah a Prisoner.

The command required this, nor could it be a deliverance without this, had he been cast out of the Whales belly any where else in the Sea he had been drowned, but now that which was his danger shall be his safety, a Ship now to Land him which before was like to be his Grave. The Scripture doth not say where he was thus set on shore, but considering he was to go to Nineveh and Preach Repentance to them, it is a very obvious conjecture that any man might make, that the Whale set Ionah on shore in some place of the Syria[illegible: 1 letter] shore nearest to Nineveh, and on view of the Charts any indifferent Geographer would conjecture that 'twas somewhere on the Bay or Gulph of Lajazzo, antiently the Sinus Issicus, or somewhat near to Alexandette as the French, or Scanderoon as the Turks call it, whence, though a long, yet by the Maps appears to be the straitest journey to Nineveh, as for some who conjecture 'twas on the Enxine Sea; they consider not the strait passage of the Propontis, nor the length of 1600 miles from Ioppa to that part of the Euxine which is next to Nineveh, nor the length and difficulty of the passage thence by Land to Nineveh; but he that said Ionah was landed on Ninevehs shore was much wider out in his ghesse, and never consid[illegible: 1 letter]red that Nineveh was built on Tigris some hundreds of miles by land from Ioppa, and, if the Fish brought him thither, it was by a compass of many thousand miles which would require some months to run over▪ besides that the Fish would be too great to swim up the River, their conjecture biddeth fairest who confine it to some places of the Syrian Sea and not far from Scanderoon.