Jonah 1:2 BSB — MannaFest

Jonah 1:2

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 1 (420)

"Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." Apart from that which the Septuagint translates as, "the noise of their wickedness has risen up even to me", it has translated the rest similarly. Jonah is sent to the gentiles to condemn Israel, because Nineveh had to repent, but the Israelites still persisted in their sin.

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

They made a profession of true religion, they boasted that they were a holy people; circumcision was also to them a symbol and a pledge of God's covenant; yet they despised all the Prophets, so that their teaching among them was wholly useless.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ק֠וּם	kum	arise	H6965 →
לֵ֧ךְ	lekh	go	H1980 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
נִֽינְוֵ֛ה	nin.Veh	Nineveh	H5210 →
הָעִ֥יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
הַגְּדוֹלָ֖ה	ha.ge.do.Lah	<the> great	H1419 →
וּקְרָ֣א	u.ke.Ra'	and call out	H7121 →
עָלֶ֑יהָ	'a.Lei.ha	on it	H5921 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
עָלְתָ֥ה	'al.Tah	it has come up	H5927 →
רָעָתָ֖ם	ra.'a.Tam	wickedness their	H7451 →
לְפָנָֽי׃	le.fa.Nai	<to> before me	H6440 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5210ninvehNineveh17×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Titus 2:15
  Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
- Hosea 8:1
  Put the ram’s horn to your lips! An eagle looms over the house of the LORD, because the people have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.
- Acts 20:26–27
  Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
- Ezekiel 3:17–21
  “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
- Acts 7:51–52
  You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Through
Nahum 1:1
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
leads to
- Zephaniah 2:13
  And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
Through
Jonah 3:2
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 1:17
  Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
- Ezekiel 2:7
  But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.