Jonah 1:2

“Go immediately to the great city of Nineveh and condemn it because I have seen the wickedness of its people.”

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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

1The Lord spoke to Jonah the son of Amittai, telling him,

3But Jonah left and ran away to Tarshish to get away from the Lord. He went to Joppa where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He paid the fare and went on board to sail to Tarshish in order to get away from the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:20Then the Lord said, “There are many complaints made against Sodom and Gomorrah because they sin so blatantly.

2 Kings 19:36Sennacherib, king of Assyria, gave up and left. He returned home to Nineveh and stayed there.

Ezra 9:6I prayed, “My God, I am so ashamed and embarrassed to come and pray to you, my God, because we are in over our heads in sin, and our guilt has risen to the heavens.

Jeremiah 1:7“Don't say you're too young,” the Lord told me. “Go to everyone I send you to. Tell them everything I order you to say.

Ezekiel 3:5I'm not sending you to those whose language is foreign to you, to people that you don't know—but to the people of Israel.

Jonah 3:3Jonah did what God told him. He set out and went to Nineveh, a city that was so big it took three days to walk through it.

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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