Jonah 1:2

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

World English Bible

In The King James Version

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

In Context

1Now the LORD’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

3But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

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Cross References

Genesis 18:20The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home, and lived at Nineveh.

Ezra 9:6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Jeremiah 1:7But the LORD said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

Ezekiel 3:5For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel—

Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

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 →

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