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Jonah 1:2

King James Version (KJV)

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Jonah 1:2

Verse 2 of 17

Scripture focus

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

Jonah 1:2 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jonah 1:2

Theological / Devotional

Their wickedness. Nahum designated Nineveh a “bloody city,” “full of lies and robbery” (Nahum 3:1; cf. v. 19). Yet the city was not hopeless. It “was not wholly given over to evil” (PK 265).

Come up. This expression, or one similar to it, is used of the sins of the antediluvian world (Gen. 6:5, 11) and of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 18:20, 21). In both instances probation was about to close. Perhaps this was also now the case with Nineveh (see on Dan. 4:17).

Before me. Compare Gen. 18:20, 21. God keeps an account with the nations. Each has its period of test. God seeks to win the allegiance of all men and to secure the cooperation of the nations in carrying out the program of heaven.

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