Jonah 1:2

God commands Jonah to preach against Nineveh because its wickedness has reached His attention. It matters because God holds even pagan nations accountable and yet sends a warning rather than immediate judgment.

Cross-references · 17

• Gen 18:20–21Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
• Gen 10:11Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
• Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• Nah 1:1A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
• Zeph 2:13–15He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
• Jonah 3:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
• Jer 1:7–10But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
• Ezek 3:5–9For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;
• Rev 18:5for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
• 2 Kgs 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
• Ezek 2:7You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
• Ezra 9:6and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.
• Mic 3:8But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
• Jas 5:4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
• Matt 10:18Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
• Nah 2:1–3He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

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