Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that ha'ir hagedolah (great city), and preach against it; for their wickedness is come up before Me.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now the Devar Hashem came unto Yonah ben Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And Hashem said, Because the outcry of Sodom and Amora is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
2 Kings 19:36So Sancheriv Melech Ashur departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6And davened, O Elohai, I am ashamed and am disgraced to lift up my face to thee, Elohai, for avonoteinu are increased over our head, and ashmateinu (our guilt) is reached up unto Shomayim.
Jeremiah 1:7But Hashem said unto me: 1 Say not, Na'ar anochi; 1 for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, 1 and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. 1
Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to an Am Imkei Safah (a people of indecipherable language) and of obscure lashon, but to Bais Yisroel;
Jonah 3:3So Yonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the Devar Hashem. Now Nineveh was an exceeding ir gedolah of a journey of shloshet yamim.
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 →