Verse 5

For you are not being sent to a people with an obscure language or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim against it, because their wickedness has come up before me.
  • Isa 33:19 : 19 You will no longer see the arrogant people, a people of obscure speech you cannot understand, of stammering tongue that you cannot comprehend.
  • Ezek 3:6 : 6 You are not sent to many peoples with unintelligible speech or difficult tongues whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
  • Ps 81:5 : 5 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
  • Isa 28:11 : 11 Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.
  • Jonah 3:2-4 : 2 “Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, following the LORD's command. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, taking three days to go through it. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, walking a journey of one day, and he proclaimed, saying, “In forty days Nineveh will be overturned!”
  • Acts 26:17-18 : 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them, 18 to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.