Then Jonah cried to the Lord from the belly of Sheol.... Sheol her implies the

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Christian Religious Studies - 1995 (Objective) Subject: Christian Religious Studies

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Then Jonah cried to the Lord from the belly of Sheol....
Sheol her implies the
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In the context of the passage, Sheol refers to the region of darkness and death. It is the place where the dead are believed to reside in Hebrew tradition, often depicted as a deep, dark pit or underworld. In this passage, Jonah is metaphorically referring to the belly of Sheol as the depths of the sea where he was trapped inside the fish.
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