Jonah 3:2

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Arise, get thee unto Nineveh, the great city, - and cry against it the cry that I am bidding thee.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”

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

King James Version (1611)
Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee.

King James Version
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

English Standard Version
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you."

New American Standard Bible
"Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you."

New Century Version
"Get up, go to the great city Nineveh, and preach to it what I tell you to say."

Amplified Bible
"Go to Nineveh the great city and declare to it the message which I am going to tell you."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, & preach vnto it the preaching, which I bid thee.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you."

Legacy Standard Bible
"Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call out to it this very call which I am going to speak to you."

Berean Standard Bible
"Arise! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim the message that I will give you."

Contemporary English Version
to go to that great city of Nineveh and preach his message of doom.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it the message I will give you."

Darby Translation
Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I shall bid thee.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Go to that big city Nineveh, and say what I tell you."

George Lamsa Translation
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it the proclamation which I tell you.

Good News Translation
He said, "Go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to the people the message I have given you."

Lexham English Bible
"Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am telling you."

Literal Translation
Rise up, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out to it the proclamation that I am declaring to you.

American Standard Version
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Bible in Basic English
Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and make unto it the proclamation that I bid thee.'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Aryse, and go to Niniue that great citie, and preache against it the preaching which I speake vnto thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Rise, go to Nineve, the great city, and preach in it according to the former preaching which I spoke to thee of.

English Revised Version
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and go in to Nynyue, the greet citee, and preche thou in it the prechyng which Y speke to thee.

Update Bible Version
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid thee.

New English Translation
"Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

New King James Version
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you."

New Living Translation
"Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you."

New Life Bible
"Get up and go to the large city of Nineveh, and tell the people there the news which I am going to tell you."

New Revised Standard
"Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Revised Standard Version
"Arise, go to Nin'eveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you."

Young's Literal Translation
`Rise, go unto Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim unto it the proclamation that I am speaking unto thee;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
vp, and get the to Niniue that greate cite, & preach vnto them the preachinge, which I bade the.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then came the word of Yahweh unto Jonah, the second time, saying: ² Arise, get thee unto Nineveh, the great city, - and cry against it the cry that I am bidding thee. ³ So Jonah arose, and went his way unto Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh, - Nineveh, being a city great before God, of three days' journey. ⁴ So Jonah began to enter into the city, one day's journey, - and he cried out and said - Yet forty days, and, Nineveh, is to be overthrown!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Nineveh: Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, was situated on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, opposite the present Mosul, about 280 miles north of Babylon, 400 ne of Damascus, in latitude 36 degrees 20 minutes n longitude 73 degrees 10 minutes e. It was not only a very ancient - Genesis 10:11, but also a very great city. Strabo says that it was much larger than Babylon, the circuit of which he estimates at 385 furlongs; and, according to Diodorus Siculus, it was an oblong parallelogram, extending 150 furlongs in length, 90 in breadth, and 480 in circumference, i.e., about 20 miles long, 12 broad, and 60 in compass. This agrees with the account given here of its being "an exceeding great city of three days' journey," i.e., in circuit; for 20 miles a day was the common computation for a pedestrian. It was surrounded by large walls 100 feet high, so broad that three chariots could drive abreast on them, and defended by 1,500 towers 200 feet in height. See notes on Nahum. Jonah 3:3, Jonah 1:2, Zephaniah 2:13-15

preach: Jeremiah 1:17, Jeremiah 15:19-21, Ezekiel 2:7, Ezekiel 3:17, Matthew 3:8, John 5:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:28 - told Aaron 2 Kings 19:36 - Nineveh Esther 9:31 - the fastings Ecclesiastes 1:1 - the Preacher Jeremiah 19:2 - and proclaim Ezekiel 3:5 - thou Jonah 4:11 - Nineveh Haggai 1:8 - and build Matthew 21:29 - he repented Luke 11:30 - General Acts 9:15 - Go Acts 18:9 - Be 2 Timothy 4:2 - Preach

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city,.... So it is called;

:-. The order runs in the same words as before; and the same discouragements are presented to Jonah, taken from the greatness of the city, the number of its inhabitants, its being the metropolis of the Assyrian empire, and the seat of the greatest monarch on earth, to try his faith; but these had not the like effect as before; for he had now another spirit given him, not of fear, but of a sound mind; he considered he was sent by a greater King, and that more were they that were on his side than the inhabitants of this place, who might possibly be against him:

and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee; that he had bid him before, declaring and exposing their wickedness, and telling them that in a short time their city would be destroyed. Jonah must not be gratified with any alteration in the message; but he must go with it as it had before been given, or what he now bid, or should bid him; the word of the Lord must be spoken just as it is delivered; nothing must be added to it, or taken from it; the whole counsel of God must be declared; prophets and ministers must preach, not as men bid them, but as God bids them. The Targum is,

"prophesy against it the prophecy which I speak with thee.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arise, go to Nineveh that great city, and preach (or cry) unto it - God says to Jonah the self-same words which He had said before; only perhaps He gives him an intimation of His purpose of mercy, in that he says no more, “cry against her,” but “cry unto her.” He might “cry against” one doomed to destruction; to “cry unto her,” seems to imply that she had some interest in, and so some hope from, this cry. “The preaching that I bid thee.” This is the only notice which Jonah relates that God took of his disobedience, in that He charged him to obey exactly what He commanded . “He does not say to him, why didst thou not what I commanded?” He had rebuked him in deed; He amended him and upbraided him not . “The rebuke of that shipwreck and the swallowing by the fish sufficed, so that he who had not felt the Lord commanding, might understand Him, delivering.”

Jonah might have seemed unworthy to be again inspired by God. But “whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth;” whom He chasteneth, He loveth . “The hard discipline, the severity and length of the scourge, were the earnests of a great trust and a high destination.” He knew him to be changed into another man, and, by one of His most special favors, gives him that same trust which he had before deserted . “As Christ, when risen, commended His sheep to Peter, wiser now and more fervent, so to Jonah risen He commends the conversion of Nineveh. For so did Christ risen bring about the conversion of the pagan, by sending His Apostles, each into large provinces, as Jonah was sent alone to a large city” . “He bids him declare not only the sentence of God, but in the same words; not to consider his own estimation or the ears of his hearers, nor to mingle soothing with severe words, and convey the message ingeniously, but with all freedom and severity to declare openly what was commanded him. This plainness, though, may be less acceptable to people or princes, is ofttimes more useful, always more approved by God. Nothing should be more sacred to the preacher of God’s word, than truth and simplicity and inviolable sanctity in delivering it. Now alas, all this is changed into vain show at the will of the multitude and the breath of popular favor.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jonah 3:2. And preach unto it the preaching — וקרא את הקריאה vekera eth hakkeriah, "And cry the cry that I bid thee." Be my herald, and faithfully deliver my message. The word κηρυξ in Greek answers to the Hebrew קורא kore: both signifying a crier, a herald, a preacher; one that makes proclamation with a loud and earnest cry. Such was John Baptist, Isaiah 40:3; such was Jesus Christ, John 7:18-37; and such were all his apostles. And such earnestness becomes a ministry that has to do with immortal souls, asleep and dead in sin, hanging on the brink of perdition, and insensible of their state. The soft-speaking, gentle-toned, unmoved preacher, is never likely to awaken souls. As we preach, so the people hear; scarcely receiving any counsels that appear to have no importance by the manner in which they are delivered. But this earnestness is widely different from that noisy, blustering, screaming rant, that manifests more of the turbulence of disorderly passions, than of the real inspired influence of the Spirit of God.