Jonah 1:2
“Get up and go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against it, because their wickedness has risen up before me.”
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1Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20Then Yahweh said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and because their sin is so serious,
2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria left Israel and went home and stayed in Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6I said, “My God, I am ashamed and disgraced to raise my face to you, for our iniquities increase over our head, and our guilt grows to the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7But Yahweh said to me, 1 “Do not say, 'I am too young.' You must go everywhere I send you, 1 and you must say whatever I command you! 1
Ezekiel 3:5For you are not being sent to a people of strange speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
Jonah 3:3So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a very large city, one of 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 →