Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous,
2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6and 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 trespass is grown up to the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7But Jehovah said unto me, Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go to whomsoever I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of strange language, and of difficult speech, [but] to the house of Israel;
Jonah 3:3And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding 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 →