Jonah 1:2
Arise, and go to Ninive the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departing went away, and he re- turned and abode in Ninive.
Ezra 9:6And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,
Jeremiah 1:7And the Lord said to me: Say not: I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee: and whatsoever I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of a profound speech, and of an unknown tongue, but to the house of Israel:
Jonah 3:3And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive 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 →