11 From that land he went to Assyria(A) and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

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“Get up!(A) Go to the great city(B) of Nineveh(C) and preach against it,(D) because their wickedness(E) has confronted[a] Me.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:2 Or has come up to

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

Now Nineveh was an extremely large city,[a](A) a three-day walk.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:3 Or was a great city to God
  2. Jonah 3:3 Probably the time required to cover the city on foot

11 Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh,(A) which has more than 120,000 people[a] who cannot distinguish between their right and their left,(B) as well as many animals?”(C)

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  1. Jonah 4:11 Or men

13 He will also stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,(A)
dry as the desert.

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