Jonah 1:2
Arise, Go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against her; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
1The word of the Lord also came unto Jonah the son of 'Amitthai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, Because the cry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous:
2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherib the king of Assyria then departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6And I said, O my God, I am ashamed and confounded to lift up my face unto thee, my God! for our iniquities are increased above our head, and our guiltiness is grown up as far as the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7And the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am [but] a lad; but to whomsoever I may send thee shalt thou go, and whatsoever I may command thee shalt thou speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For not to a people of an obscure speech and of a difficult tongue art thou sent, but to the house of Israel;
Jonah 3:3And Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a great city before God, a 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 →