Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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Gill's Exposition
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,.... That is, arise from the place where he was, and leave the business he was about, and prepare for a long journey to the place mentioned, and be as expeditious…
Barnes' Notes
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city - The Assyrian history, as far as it has yet been discovered, is very bare of events in regard to this period. We have as yet the names of three kings only for…
Adam Clarke
Go to Nineveh - This was the capital of the Assyrian empire, and one of the most ancient cities of the world, Gen 10:10; and one of the largest, as it was three days' journey in circumference. Ancient…
Observe, 1. The honour God put upon Jonah, in giving him a commission to go and prophesy against Nineveh. Jonah signifies a dove, a proper name for all God's prophets, all his people, who ought to be…
Cambridge Bible
Nineveh On the E. bank of the Tigris, the capital of the ancient kingdom and empire of Assyria, and "the most magnificent of all the capitals of the ancient world." The building of it is mentioned as…
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