Jonah 1:2
Rise, and go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it; for the cry of its wickedness is come up to me.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now the word of the Lord came to Jonas the son of Amathi, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha has been increased towards me, and their sins are very great.
2 Kings 19:36And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and lived in Nineve.
Ezra 9:6and I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded, O my God, to lift up my face to you: 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 you shall go to all to whoever I shall send you, and according to all the words that I shall command you, you shall speak.
Ezekiel 3:5For you are not sent to a people of hard speech, but to the house of Israel;
Jonah 3:3And Jonas arose, and went to Nineve, as the Lord had spoken. Now Nineve was + 3:3 Lit. a great city to God. Acts 7:20. 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 →