Jonah 1:2

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““Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.””

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““Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.””

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KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
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“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.”

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“`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim against it that their wickedness hath come up before Me.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jonah 1:2 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 10:11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
  2. Genesis 18:20Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
  3. Genesis 18:21I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
  4. 2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
  5. 2 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  6. Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
  7. Isaiah 58:1“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
  8. Jeremiah 1:7But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
  9. Ezekiel 2:7But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
  10. Ezekiel 3:5For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—
  11. Jonah 3:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
  12. Jonah 3:3This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
  13. Jonah 4:11So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  14. Micah 3:8As for me, however, I am filled with power by the Spirit of the LORD, with justice and courage, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
  15. Nahum 1:1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
  16. Nahum 2:1One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
  17. Nahum 3:19There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
  18. Zephaniah 2:13And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
  19. Matthew 10:18On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.
  20. James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
  21. Revelation 18:5For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

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