John Trapp on Jonah 3:2

Verſe 2. Ariſe go unto Nineveh,] Begin again, and take better heed: as the Nazarite was to do, that had defiled the head of his conſecration, Numb. 6.9, 12.

unto Niniveh that great city] See the Note on Chap. 1.2. There was no city ſince, by the eſtimation of Diodorus, had the like compaſſe of ground or ſtarelineſſe of wals; the height thereof being an hundred foot, the breadth able to receive three carts a-row, adorned with fifteen hundred turrets. Some think (as Annius & Beroſus) that thoſe three cities ſpoken of, Gen. 10. Rehoboth, Calah and Reſen were all included in Niniveh, and they conceive it thus: that when Nimrod had built Babylon, Ninus, diſdaining his government, went into the fields of Aſhur, and there erected a city after his own name. Raphael Volaterranus ſaith, it was eight years in building, ten thouſand men working at it. Quintilian ſaith, that great Millain, ancient Ravenna, brave Bouonia, noble Naples, and other great cities of Italy are but towers to Rome: but what was Rome to Niniveh? and yet Lipſius hath written a treatiſe of Romes greatneſſe, and when the Emperour Conſtantine came to Rome, and beheld the companies that entertained him, he repeated a ſaying of Cineas the Epirote, that he had ſeen ſo many kings as citizens: but viewing the building of the city, he thought naturam vires omnes in urbem unam effudiſſe, that nature had ſhewed the utmoſt of what ſhe could do, in that one great city. See more on verſ. 3.

and preach unto it the preaching] Heb. Proclaim unto it (or, againſt it) the proclamation that I ſay to thee, that I have formerly put into thy mouth, and do now ſo again, ſc: that their wickedneſſe is come up before me, and I am even upon the way toward them to puniſh it grievouſly. Flagitium & flagellum ſunt ſicut acus & filum, Who ever waxed fierce againſt God and proſpered? Job 9.4. This wicked men muſt be boldly told, Eſa. 3.11. however they take it; neither may Gods miniſters ſteal away the word, Jer. 22.30. or keep back from the people any part of Gods counſel, Act. 20.27. handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifeſtation of the truth commend themſelves to every mans conſcience in the ſight of God, 2 Cor. 4.2. as becometh his Embaſſadours.