Jonah 1:2
'Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
1NOW THE WORD of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And the LORD said: 'Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.
2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6and I 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 guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7But the LORD said unto me: say not: I am a child; for to whomsoever I shall send thee thou shalt go, and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of an unintelligible speech and of a slow tongue, but to the house of Israel;
Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. 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 →