Jonah 3:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.

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  • Ezek 2:7 : 7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse: for they are most rebellious.
  • Jer 1:17 : 17 Therefore prepare yourself, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I confound you before them.
  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
  • Jonah 3:3 : 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city of three days' journey.
  • Zeph 2:13-15 : 13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. 14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be at the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me: how has she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! Everyone that passes by her shall hiss, and shake his hand.
  • Matt 3:8 : 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance:
  • Jer 15:19-21 : 19 Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then I will bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them. 20 And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD. 21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.
  • Ezek 3:17 : 17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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  • Jonah 1:1-6
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    1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

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

    3 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

    4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty storm in the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.

    5 Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

    6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do you mean, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, perhaps that God will consider us, that we do not perish.

  • Jonah 3:3-8
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    3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city of three days' journey.

    4 And Jonah began to enter into the city, a day's journey, and he cried out, saying, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

    5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

    6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

    7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not eat, nor drink water.

    8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in their hands.

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

  • 41 The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

  • 32 The men of Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

  • 17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

  • 10 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto the dry land.

  • Nah 3:7-8
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    7 And it shall come to pass, that all who look upon you will flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will mourn for her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?

    8 Are you better than populous No, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters around it, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was from the sea?

  • Jonah 4:4-5
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    4 Then the LORD said, Do you do well to be angry?

    5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

  • 8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

  • Jonah 4:1-2
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    1 But it displeased Jonah greatly, and he was very angry.

    2 And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relent from doing harm.

  • Jonah 2:1-2
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    1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the fish's belly,

    2 And said, I cried out because of my affliction to the LORD, and He heard me; out of the depths of the grave I cried, and You heard my voice.

  • 8 Then they said to him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is your occupation? and from where do you come? what is your country? and of what people are you?

  • Jonah 4:8-11
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    8 And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

    9 And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry for the plant? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

    10 Then the LORD said, You have had pity on the plant, for which you have not labored, nor made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

    11 And should I not spare Nineveh, that great city, where there are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

  • 17 Therefore prepare yourself, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: do not be dismayed at their faces, lest I confound you before them.

  • 4 And he said to me, Son of man, go, get yourself to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.

  • 30 For as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation.

  • 3 And the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying,

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    14 Therefore they cried to the LORD, and said, We beseech you, O LORD, we beseech you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.

    15 So they took up Jonah, and threw him into the sea: and the sea ceased from its raging.

  • 22 And the hand of the LORD was upon me there; and he said to me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will talk with you there.

  • Gen 10:11-12
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    11 Out of that land went Asshur and built Nineveh, and the city of Rehoboth, and Calah,

    12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah; it is the great city.

  • 6 And trembling and astonished, he said, Lord, what do you want me to do? And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.

  • 9 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 11 And go, get to those of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they refuse.

  • 2 And go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you,

  • Matt 3:1-2
    2 verses
    66%

    1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

    2 And saying, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.

  • 11 And the LORD said to me, Arise, take your journey ahead of the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.

  • 10 And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Arise, and go into Damascus, and there it shall be told to you everything that is appointed for you to do.

  • 12 And they went out, and preached that people should repent.

  • 12 Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.