Jonah 1:2

Jonah Disobeys Yahweh

¹ The word of the lord came unto the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying, ² "Rise and get thee to Nineveh that great city and preach unto them, how that their wickedness is come up before me." ³ And Jonah made him ready to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and gat him down to Joppa, and found there a ship ready to go to Tarshish, and paid his fare, and went aboard, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

Great City

Jonah

Nineveh

Genesis 10:11

Out of that land came Assyria, and built Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

2 Kings 19:36

And so Sennacherib king of Assyria avoided and departed and went again, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Jonah 3:2

"Up, and get thee to Nineveh that great city, and preach unto them the preaching which I bade thee."

Nahum 1:1

This is the heavy burden of Nineveh, which Nahum of Elkosh did write, as he saw it.

Isaiah 58:1

Cry with the throat and spare not. Lift up thy voice as a trumpet, and tell my people their offences and the house of Jacob their sins.

Jonah 4:11

And should not I have compassion on Nineveh that great city, wherein there is a multitude of people, even above a hundred thousand that know not their righthand from the left, besides much cattle?"

Revelation 18:5

For her sins are gone up to heaven, and God hath remembered her wickedness.

Genesis 18:20-21

And the LORD said, "The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is exceeding grievous.

Ezra 9:6

and said, "My God, I am ashamed, and dare not lift up mine eyes unto thee my God: for our wickednesses are grown over our head, and our trespasses are waxen great unto the heaven.

Jeremiah 1:7-10

And the LORD answered me thus, "Say not so, 'I am too young': For thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee unto, and whatsoever I command thee, that shalt thou speak.

Ezekiel 2:7

See that thou speak my words unto them, whether they be obedient or not, for they are obstinate.

Ezekiel 3:5-9

For I send thee not to a people that hath a strange, unknown, or hard speech, but unto the house of Israel;

Micah 3:8

As for me, I am full of strength, and of the spirit of the LORD; full of judgment and boldness, to show the house of Jacob their wickedness, and the house of Israel their sin.

Nahum 2:1-3

The scatterer shall come up against thee, and lay siege to the castle. Look thou well to the streets, make thy loins strong, arm thyself with all thy might:

Zephaniah 2:13-15

Yea, he shall stretch out his hand over the north, and destroy Assyria. As for Nineveh, he shall make it desolate, dry and waste.

Matthew 10:18

And ye shall be brought to the head rulers and kings for my sake, in witness to them and to the Gentiles.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire is of you kept back by fraud - crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped, are entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.