Did a Whale Swallow Jonah? 🐋 THE Bible tells us that Jonah, a prophet of Jehovah in the ninth century B.C.E., fleeing an assignment, boarded a ship. During the stormy voyage in the Mediterranean, the crew hurled him overboard. “Jehovah appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, so that Jonah came to be in the inward parts of the fish three days and three nights.” —Jonah 1:3-17. Some say, ‘Impossible! No creature in the sea could swallow a man.’ But either a sperm whale or a great white shark coul