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ESV — Genesis 10:11; Jonah 1:2; Jonah 3:3; Jonah 4:11

11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and

2 “Arise, go to bNineveh, that cgreat city, and call out against it, dfor their evil1 has come up before me.”

Footnotes

[1] 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah

3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now lNineveh was an exceedingly great city,1 three days' journey in breadth.2

Footnotes

[1] 3:3 Hebrew a great city to God
[2] 3:3 Or a visit was a three days' journey

11 And should not I pity jNineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much kcattle?”