Jonah 1:2

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Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim against it, because their wickedness has come up before me.

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  • Gen 10:11 : 11 From that land, Asshur went out and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
  • Nah 1:1 : 1 This is a pronouncement concerning Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Jonah 3:2 : 2 “Get up, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim the message that I tell you.”
  • Jonah 4:11 : 11 So should I not care about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 people who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?'
  • Zeph 2:13-15 : 13 He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, leaving Nineveh utterly desolate, as dry as the desert. 14 Flocks and all kinds of wild animals will lie down in her midst; even the pelican and the hedgehog will lodge on her columns. Their voices will echo through the windows, rubble will fill the thresholds, for her cedar paneling has been laid bare. 15 This is the jubilant city that dwelled securely and said in her heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' How she has become a desolation, a resting place for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her injustices.
  • Gen 18:20-21 : 20 Then the LORD said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave. 21 'I will go down now and see if what they have done matches the outcry that has come to Me. If not, I will know.'
  • 2 Kgs 19:36 : 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a trumpet; announce to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Jer 1:7-9 : 7 But the LORD said to me, 'Do not say, “I am too young.” You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.' 8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,' declares the LORD. 9 Then the LORD reached out His hand and touched my mouth and said to me, 'Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.' 10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.
  • Ezek 2:7 : 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
  • Ezek 3:5-9 : 5 For you are not being sent to a people with an obscure language or a difficult tongue, but to the house of Israel. 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. 7 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me. The entire house of Israel is hard-headed and stubborn-hearted. 8 Look, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as strong as their foreheads. 9 I have made your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not fear them or be dismayed by their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.'
  • Mic 3:8 : 8 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
  • Nah 2:1-3 : 1 See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off. 2 The scatterer has come against your face. Guard the fortress, watch the road, strengthen your loins, muster all your strength! 3 For the LORD has restored the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel. Even though plunderers have ravaged them and destroyed their vines.
  • Matt 10:18 : 18 You will be brought before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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    1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying,

    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!”

    5 The people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

    6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

    7 Then he made a proclamation in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his nobles: “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not graze or drink water.

    8 But let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out to God with fervor. Let each turn from his evil ways and from the violence in their hands.

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    4 But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was about to break apart.

    5 The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down to the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.

    6 The captain came to him and said, "What are you doing, sound asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps your god will consider us, so that we will not perish."

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    6 I will throw filth on you, treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.

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