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

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11 From that land he went to Assyria,(A) where he built Nineveh,(B) Rehoboth Ir,[a] Calah

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  1. Genesis 10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares

“Arise, go to (A)Nineveh, that (B)great city, and call out against it, (C)for their evil[a] has come up before me.”

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

“Go to the great city of Nineveh(A) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now (A)Nineveh was an exceedingly great city,[a] three days' journey in breadth.[b]

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

Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.

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11 And should not I pity (A)Nineveh, 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 (B)cattle?”

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11 And should I not have concern(A) for the great city of Nineveh,(B) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

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