“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- BSB “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
- NKJV “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.”
- NASB “Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”
- NLT “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”
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Cross-references · 9
- Ezek 2:7You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
- Jer 1:17“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
- Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
- Jonah 1:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
- Jer 15:19–21Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth. They shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.
- John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
- 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.
- Matt 3:8Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!
- Ezek 3:17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
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Three days in the belly of the fish is the sign Jesus gave of his own death and resurrection (Matt 12:40); and God's mercy on pagan Nineveh foreshadows the gospel going to the nations.
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