Jonah 1:2
Arise, get thee to Nineveh the great city, and proclaim unto it,—that their wickedness, hath come up, before me.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the word of Yahweh came unto Jonah son of Amittai, saying:
Cross References
Genesis 18:20So Yahweh said, The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah, because it hath become great,—And their sin, because it hath become exceeding grievous,
2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria brake up, and went his way, and returned,—and remained in Nineveh.
Ezra 9:6and said, O my God, I turn pale and am ashamed, to lift up, O my God, my face unto thee,—for, our iniquities, have multiplied above the head, and our guilt hath magnified itself unto the heavens.
Jeremiah 1:7Then said Yahweh unto me, Do not say, A child, am, I,—For against whomsoever I send thee, shalt thou go, And whatsoever I command thee, shalt thou speak:
Ezekiel 3:5For not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue, art thou sent —[but] unto the house of Israel:
Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went his way unto Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh,—Nineveh, being a city great before God, 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 →