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Jonah 1:2 Cross-References
Explore 17 cross-references for Jonah 1:2 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Jonah chapter 1 verse 2 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.”
Jonah 1:2 (KJV)
Commentary on Jonah 1:2
God's command is direct and shocking: "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." The Hebrew qum lekh el-Nineveh ha'ir haggedolah uqera aleyha ki-aletah ra'atam lephanay (קוּם לֵךְ אֶל־נִינְוֵה הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה וּקְרָא עָלֶיהָ כִּי־עָלְתָה רָעָתָם לְפָנָי) sends an Israelite prophet to Israel's enemy—equivalent to sending a Holocaust survivor to preach in Berlin in 1945."Nineveh, that great city" (Nineveh ha'ir haggedolah) emphasizes size and significance. Nineveh was Assyria's capital, center of the brutal empire that would later d...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Jonah 1:2
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“Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,,And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;,וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה זַעֲקַת סְדֹם וַעֲמֹרָה כִּי־רָבָּה וְחַטָּאתָם כִּי כָבְדָה מְאֹד׃ ,And the LORD said: Verily”
“and built Nineveh”
“The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.”
“don't spare”
“destroy Assyria”
“Arise”
“that great city”
“and God has remembered her iniquities.”
“Don't say”
“but to the house of Israel;”