Jonás 1:2

2 Levántate, ve a Nínive, la gran ciudad, y proclama contra ella, porque su maldad ha subido hasta mí.

Jonás 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Jonah 1:2

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 in it as possible. Nineveh was the metropolis of the Assyrian empire at this time; it was an ancient city built by Ashur, not by Nimrod; though he by some is said to go into Ashur or Assyria, and build it, ( Genesis 10:11 ) ; and called it after the name of his son Ninus; for it signifies the mansion or palace of Ninus; and by most profane writers is called Ninus; according to Diodorus Siculus ^F13, and Strabo {n}, it was built by Ninus himself in Assyria, in that part of it called by him Adiabena. It is said to be a great city, as it must, to be three days' journey in compass, and to have in it six score thousand infants, besides men and women, ( Jonah 3:3 ) ( 4:11 ) . It is allowed by Strabo

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 to be larger than Babylon. Diodorus ^F16 says that it was in compass of sixty miles; and had a wall a hundred feet high, and so broad that three chariots or carriages might go abreast upon it; and it had, fifteen hundred towers, two hundred feet high. Aben Ezra calls it the royal city of Assyria, which is at this day destroyed; and the wise men of Israel, in the country of Greece, say it is called Urtia; but, whether so or not, he knew not: and cry against it;
or prophesy against it, as the Targum; he was to lift up his voice, and cry aloud, as he passed along in it, that the inhabitants might hear him; and the more to affect them, and to show that he was in earnest, and what he delivered was interesting to them, and of the greatest moment and importance: what he was to cry, preach, or publish, see ( Jonah 3:2 Jonah 3:4 ) ; for their wickedness is come up before me;
it was come to a very great height; it reached to the heavens; it was not only seen and known by the Lord, as all things are; but the cry of it was come up to him; it called aloud for vengeance, for immediate vengeance; the measure of it being filled up, and the inhabitants ripe for destruction; it was committed openly and boldly, with much impudence, in the sight of the Lord, as well as against him; and was no more to be suffered and connived at: it intends and includes their idolatry, bloodshed, oppression, rapine, fraud, and lying; see ( Jonah 3:8 ) ( Nahum 3:1 ) .
F13 Bibliothec. l 2. p. 92.
F14 Geograph. l. 16. p. 507.
F15 Ut supra. (Geograph. l. 16. p. 507.)
F16 Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 92.

Jonás 1:2 In-Context

1 Vino palabra del SEÑOR a Jonás, hijo de Amitai, diciendo:

2 Levántate, ve a Nínive, la gran ciudad, y proclama contra ella, porque su maldad ha subido hasta mí.

3 Pero Jonás se levantó para huir a Tarsis, lejos de la presencia del SEÑOR. Y descendiendo a Jope, encontró un barco que iba a Tarsis, pagó el pasaje y entró en él para ir con ellos a Tarsis, lejos de la presencia del SEÑOR.

4 Y el SEÑOR desató sobre el mar un fuerte viento, y hubo una tempestad tan grande en el mar que el barco estuvo a punto de romperse.

5 Los marineros tuvieron miedo y cada uno clamaba a su dios; y arrojaron al mar la carga que estaba en el barco para aligerarlo. Pero Jonás había bajado a la bodega del barco, se había acostado y dormía profundamente.