Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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.

New American Standard Bible

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.

Now Nineveh was an extremely large city, a three-day walk.

International Standard Version

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh to do what the LORD had ordered.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

So Jonah went to Nineveh in accordance with the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk [about sixty miles in circumference].

Bible in Basic English

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh as the Lord had said. Now Nineveh was a very great town, three days' journey from end to end.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

And Jonah will rise and go to Nineveh according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a great city to God, the going of three days.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was {an extraordinarily great city}--a journey of three days [across].

Modern King James verseion

And Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the Word of Jehovah. And Nineveh was a very great city of three days' journey.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he arose and went to Nineveh at the LORD's commandment. Nineveh was a great city unto God, containing three days journey.

NET Bible

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!)

New Heart English Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

Youngs Literal Translation

and Jonah riseth, and he goeth unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. And Nineveh hath been a great city before God, a journey of three days.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
So Jonah
יונה 
Yonah 
Usage: 19

and went
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

נינוה 
Niyn@veh 
Usage: 17

according to the word
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

of the Lord

Usage: 0

נינוה 
Niyn@veh 
Usage: 17

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

of three
שׁלשׁה שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ 
Shalowsh 
Usage: 430

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

The People Of Nineveh Repent At Jonah's Proclamation

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!


Cross References

Genesis 22:3

So Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took his two young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the pieces of wood for an ascending-sacrifice, and mounted and went his way unto the place which God had named to him.

Genesis 30:8

Then said Rachel With wrestlings of God, have I wrestled with my sister Yea I have prevailed. So she called his name, Naphtali.

Psalm 36:6

Thy righteousness, is like mighty mountains, and, thy just decrees, are a great resounding deep, - Man and beast, thou savest, O Yahweh!

Psalm 80:10

Covered were the mountains with its shade, And, with its boughs, the mighty cedars.

Matthew 21:28-29

But how, to you, doth it seem? A man, had two sons: coming unto the first, he said, Son! go thy way, to-day, be working in the vineyard.

2 Timothy 4:11

Luke, alone is with me. Receiving, Mark, back, bring him with thyself, for he is very useful to me for ministering;

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