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Jonah 1:2 KJV
Jonah · chapter 1 · verse 2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.Jonah 1:2 · King James Version
Jonah 1:2 in context
1Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
3But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
4But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wickednessraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- NinevehNîynᵉvêhNineveh, the capital of AssyriaH5210 →
- Ariseqûwmto riseH6965 →
- greatgâdôwlgreatH1419 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- cryqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-3