Jonah 3:2

“You have to go now to that big city called Nineveh. You have to tell the people in Nineveh my message.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

In Context

1Then God talked to Jonah a second time. God said,

3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, just like God said. Nineveh was a really big city. It took three days to walk from one side of that city to the other side.

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Cross References

Jonah 3:3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, just like God said. Nineveh was a really big city. It took three days to walk from one side of that city to the other side.

Matthew 3:8If you really are sorry for the bad things you did, and if you are turning around properly to live God’s way, show us. If we see you doing good things, then we will know it is true.

Matthew Henry on Jonah 3:2-5

Jonah's Mission Renewed; The Prophet's Mission to Nineveh. ( b. c. 840.) 1 And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord . Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. We have here… Read the whole commentary →

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