Jonah 1:2
Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.
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In Context
1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,
2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.
Jeremiah 1:7But the Lord said to me, Do not say, I am a child: for wherever I send you, you are to go, and whatever I give you orders to say, you are to say.
Ezekiel 3:5For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;
Jonah 3:3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.
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 →