Jon 1:2, 3:3, Zep 2:13-15 | ESV | STEP | Arise , go to Nineveh , that great city , and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.

a Gen. 10:11, 12; 2 Kgs. 19:36; Nah. 1:1; Zeph. 2:13; Matt. 12:41; Luke 11:30, 32

b ch. 3:3; 4:11

c Rev. 18:5

e[See ver. 2 above]

h[Isa. 10:12]

i Nah. 3:7

j Isa. 13:21, 22; 34:14

Jonah 1:2

2 “Arise, go to ^aNineveh, that ^bgreat city, and call out against it, ^cfor their evil ^{▼▼The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah} has come up before me.”

Jonah 3:3

3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now ^eNineveh was an exceedingly great city, ^{▼▼Hebrew a great city to God} three days’ journey in breadth. ^{▼▼Or a visit was a three days’ journey}

Zephaniah 2:13-15

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
^hand destroy Assyria,
and he ⁱwill make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.
14 ^jHerds shall lie down in her midst,
all kinds of beasts; ^{▼▼Hebrew beasts of every nation}
^leven the owl and the hedgehog ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain}
shall lodge in her capitals;
a voice shall hoot in the window;
devastation will be on the threshold;
for ⁿher cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city
^othat lived securely,
that said in her heart,
“I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
^pa lair for wild beasts!
^qEveryone who passes by her
hisses and ^rshakes his fist.