Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now the word of LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7But LORD said to me, Say not, I am a child. For to whomever I shall send thee thou shall go, and whatever I shall command thee thou shall speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For thou are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel,
Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, of three days' journey.
Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:2-4
Jonah This book of Jonah, though it be placed here in the midst of the prophetical books of scripture, is yet rather a history than a prophecy; one line of prediction there is in it, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown; the rest of the book is a narrative of the preface to and the consequences of that prediction. In the midst of the obscure prophecies before and after this book, wherein are many things dark and hard to be understood, which are puzzling to the learned, and are strong meat for strong… Read the whole commentary →