Jonah 1:2
Arise, and goe to Nineueh, that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before mee.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
1The worde of the Lord came also vnto Ionah the sonne of Amittai, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 18:20Then the Lord saide, Because the crie of Sodom and Gomorah is great, and because their sinne is exceeding grieuous,
2 Kings 19:36So Saneherib King of Asshur departed, and went his way, and returned, and dwelt in Nineueh.
Ezra 9:6And said, O my God, I am confounded and ashamed, to lift vp mine eyes vnto thee my God: for our iniquities are increased ouer our head, and our trespasse is growen vp vnto the heauen.
Jeremiah 1:7But the Lord said vnto me, Say not, I am a childe: for thou shalt goe to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoeuer I command thee, shalt thou speake.
Ezekiel 3:5For thou art not sent to a people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel,
Jonah 3:3So Ionah arose and went to Nineueh according to ye word of the Lord: now Nineueh was a great and excellent citie of three dayes iourney.
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 →