Verse 2

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

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:11 : 11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
  • Nah 1:1 : 1 An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Jonah 3:2 : 2 "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."
  • Jonah 4:11 : 11 Shouldn'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 2:13-15 : 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness. 14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams. 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
  • Rev 18:5 : 5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
  • Gen 18:20-21 : 20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
  • 2 Kgs 19:36 : 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
  • Isa 58:1 : 1 "Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Jer 1:7-9 : 7 But Yahweh said to me, "Don't say, 'I am a child;' for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak. 8 Don't be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you," says Yahweh. 9 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. 10 Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant."
  • Ezek 2:7 : 7 You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.
  • Ezek 3:5-9 : 5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel; 6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 and 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 3:8 : 8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.
  • Nah 2:1-3 : 1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! 2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
  • Matt 10:18 : 18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, 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.