2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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.
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We have here a further evidence of the reconciliation between God and Jonah, and that it was a thorough reconciliation, though the controversy between them had run high. I. Jonah’s commission is renewed and readily obeyed. 1. By this it appears that God was perfectly reconciled to Jonah, that he employed him again in his service; and the commission anew given him was an evidence of the remission o…
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