Jonah 1:2

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Arise	ק֠וּם kum	H6965	to rise (in various applications · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
go	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
Nineveh	נִֽינְוֵ֛ה nin.Veh	H5210	Nineveh · proper noun, a place name
great	הַגְּדוֹלָ֖ה ha.ge.do.Lah	H1419	great (in any sense) · definite article + adjective, feminine singular absolute
city	הָעִ֥יר ha.'Ir	H5892	a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
cry	וּקְרָ֣א u.ke.Ra'	H7121	to call out to (i.e. properly · conjunction + verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
wickedness	רָעָתָ֖ם ra.'a.Tam	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
up	עָלְתָ֥ה 'al.Tah	H5927	to ascend · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
before	לְפָנָֽי le.fa.Nai	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Genesis 18:20-21 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Genesis 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Jonah 3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right han…
Zephaniah 2:13-15 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
Jeremiah 1:7-10 But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:1-3

Observe, 1. The honour God put upon Jonah, in giving him a commission to go and prophesy against Nineveh. Jonah signifies a dove, a proper name for all God's prophets, all his people, who ought to be harmless as doves, and to mourn as doves for the sins and calamities of the land. His father's name was Amittai - My truth; for God's prophets should be sons of truth. To him the word of the Lord came - to him it was (so the word signifies), for God's word is a real thing; men's words are but wind, but God's words are substance. He has been before acquainted with the word of the Lord, and knew his voice from that of a stranger; the orders now given him were, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jonah 1:2

to Nineveh--east of the Tigris, opposite the modern Mosul. The only case of a prophet being sent to the heathen. Jonah, however, is sent to Nineveh, not solely for Nineveh's good, but also to shame Israel, by the fact of a heathen city repenting at the first preaching of a single stranger, Jonah, whereas God's people will not repent, though preached to by their many national prophets, late and early. Nineveh means "the residence of Ninus," that is, Nimrod. , where the translation ought to be, "He (Nimrod) went forth into Assyria and builded Nineveh." Modern research into the cuneiform inscriptions confirms the Scripture account that Babylon was founded earlier than Nineveh, and that both cit…

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Adam Clarke on Jonah 1:2

Go to Nineveh - This was the capital of the Assyrian empire, and one of the most ancient cities of the world, Gen 10:10; and one of the largest, as it was three days' journey in circumference. Ancient writers represent it as oblong; being in length one hundred and fifty stadia, and ninety in breadth, the compass being four hundred and eighty stadia. Now as the stadium is allowed to have been equal to our furlong, eight of which make a mile, this amounts to fifty-four English miles: see on Jon 3:3 (note). But we must not suppose that all this space was covered with compact streets and buildings; it took in a considerable space of country, probably all the cultivated ground necessary to suppor…

The Church Fathers

For the same who had been their accuser, and who had said, that "the cry of their wickedness hath ascended up even to heaven," himself again bears testimony of an opposite kind, by saying, "God saw that every one departed from their own evil ways." He does not say, from fornication, or adultery, or theft, but from their "own evil ways." And how did they depart? As God knew, not as man judged of the matter.… These men had, moreover, gone to the extreme of wickedness before; for when you hear it said, "The cry of their wickedness is come up before me," you can understand nothing else than the excess of their wickedness. Nevertheless, within three days they were capable of being transformed to a state of complete virtue.
— John Chrysostom, HOMILIES CONCERNING THE STATUES 20

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Dictionary and topics

Disobedience To God · Exemplified: Jonah — Exemplified: Jonah
Jonah · Sent by God to warn the city of Nineveh — Sent by God to warn the city of Nineveh
Nineveh · Jonah preaches to — Jonah preaches to
Sins, National · Ministers should: Testify against — Ministers should: Testify against

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Jonah 1:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:1-3

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jonah 1:2

Adam Clarke on Jonah 1:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Jonah 1:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Jonah 1:1-3

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jonah 1:2

Adam Clarke on Jonah 1:2

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Jonah 1:2

John Calvin on Jonah 1:1-2

Keil & Delitzsch on Jonah 1:1-2

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Jonah 1:2

Rashi on Jonah 1:2