Matthew Poole and continuators on Jonah 1:2

2 Arise , go to Nineveh that great city , and cry against it for their wickedness is come up before me .

Forthwith prepare thy self, and get all in readiness, and with hearty resolution set upon the work.

So soon as thou art ready, set forward on thy journy▪ make not any delay.

The chief City, or Metropolis of the Assyrian Kingdom built by Ashur, Gen. 10.11. if this verse be not better translated, thus He (i. e. Nimrod) went out into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, so Nimrod the Founder, and first Builder.

It may be easily conjectur'd a great City, which was scituate on such a River as Tigris is, had continued so many hundred years from 1719 of the World in which 'twas built, unto 3124, about which time Ionah was sent to Preach against it; during which long growth it may be conceived as great as 'tis ordinarily described, 150 Furlongs in length, that is eighteen miles, and three quarters of a mile of our English measure, and eleven miles and one quarter of the same measure in breadth.

Earnestly, and publickly, preach against the sins, and denounce the sudden ruin of that City unless they repent. So cry that all may hear, or at least all may come to the knowledge of what is threatned.

Their many and great sins, as 'tis said of Cain's sin when he had slain Abel, Gen. 4.10. and Sodoms sins, Gen. 18 20, 21. and the sins of oppressours, Iames. 5.4. cry aloud, the cry enters Heaven, and justice must no longer defer, yet I will give them warning, Ionah, go thou, and tell them plainly, their great sins shall be greatly punisht.

Marginal references: Ezra. 9.6. [illegible: 1 word]. 18.[illegible: 1 letter].