Jonah 1:2

Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.

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In The King James Version

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

In Context

1And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:

3And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:20And so the Lord said, “The outcry from Sodom and Gomorrah has been multiplied, and their sin has become exceedingly grievous.

2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh.

Ezra 9:6And I said: “My God, I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to you. For our iniquities have been multiplied over our heads, and our offenses have increased, even up to heaven,

Jeremiah 1:7And the Lord said to me: “Do not choose to say, ‘I am a boy.’ For you shall go forth to everyone to whom I will send you. And you shall speak all that I will command you.

Ezekiel 3:5For you will be sent, not to a people of profound words or of an unknown language, but to the house of Israel,

Jonah 3:3And Jonah rose, and he went to Nineveh in accordance with the word of the Lord. And Nineveh was a 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 →

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