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Jonah 1:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
Jonah 1:2 in the King James Version
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.Read Jonah 1:2 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Jonah 1
Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.
But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. 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 Yahweh.
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
Cross references for Jonah 1:2
- Genesis 18:20-21
Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.
- Genesis 10:11
Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Nahum 1:1
An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Jonah 4:11
Shouldn't I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can't discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?
- Zephaniah 2:13-15
He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness. Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will ...
- Jonah 3:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.
- Ezekiel 3:5-9
For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they...
- Jeremiah 1:7-10
But Yahweh said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak. Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you," says Yahweh. Then Yahwe...
- Revelation 18:5
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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