| Jonah 1:2
| Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me.
| Ninive, the capital city of the Assyrian empire. (Challoner) --- It was 150 stadia long and 90 broad, (Diod. ii.) on the western bank of the Tigris. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 6:13.) --- Mosul, which some mistake for it, stands on the northern side. See Genesis 10:10. At the time when Jonas preached, Ninive would contain about 600,000, Jonas 4:11. They were people less favoured by God, (Acts 14:15.; Calmet) but not abandoned. (Theodoret) --- God took sufficient care of all his creatures, and foretold many things relating to foreign nations. (Calmet) --- Romans 3:29. (Worthington) --- For the. Septuagint add, "cry of," Genesis iv., and xviii. (Haydock)
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