Jonah 3:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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 [sixty miles in circumference].

American Standard Version (1901)

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.

Common English Bible

And Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, according to the LORD’s word. (Now Nineveh was indeed an enormous city, a three days’ walk across.)

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Jonah rose, and he went to Nineveh in accordance with the word of the Lord. And Nineveh was a great city of three days' journey.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.

Jonah 3:3 Cross References

Genesis 22:3

So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him.

Genesis 30:8

Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed,” so she named him Naphtali.

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains; your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.

Psalm 80:10

The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

Isaiah 37:37

Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.

Jonah 1:2

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Jonah 4:11

And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left and also many animals?”

2 Timothy 4:11

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is useful to me in ministry.