Jonah 1:2

New English Translation

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”

Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

2 Kings 19:36

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

2 Chronicles 28:9

Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.

Ezra 9:6

I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

Isaiah 37:37

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

Isaiah 58:1

“Shout loudly! Don’t be quiet! Yell as loud as a trumpet! Confront my people with their rebellious deeds; confront Jacob’s family with their sin!

Jeremiah 20:9

Sometimes I think, “I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.

Ezekiel 2:7

You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

Hosea 7:2

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

Jonah 3:2

“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”

Jonah 3:3

So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city – it required three days to walk through it!)

Jonah 4:11

Should I not be even more concerned about Nineveh, this enormous city? There are more than one hundred twenty thousand people in it who do not know right from wrong, as well as many animals!”

Micah 3:8

But I am full of the courage that the Lord’s Spirit gives, and have a strong commitment to justice. This enables me to confront Jacob with its rebellion, and Israel with its sin.

Nahum 1:1

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

Nahum 3:19

Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!

Matthew 10:18

And you will be brought before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them and the Gentiles.

Matthew 12:41

The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them – and now, something greater than Jonah is here!

James 5:4

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Revelation 18:5

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.