Jonah 1:2
Rise, and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah has been increased toward me, and their sins are very great.
2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherib king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6and I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded, O my God, to lift up my face to thee: for our transgressions have abounded over our head, and our trespasses have increased even to heaven.
Jeremiah 1:7And the Lord said to me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all to whomsoever I shall send thee, and according to all the words that I shall command thee, thou shalt speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Israel;
Jonah 3:3And Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of about 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 →