Jonah 3:3 {2}
Good News Translation
So Jonah obeyed the LORD and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to walk through it.

New Revised Standard Version
So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across.

Contemporary English Version
Jonah obeyed the LORD and went to Nineveh. The city was so big that it took three days just to walk through it.

New American Bible
So Jonah set out for Nineveh, in accord with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an awesomely great city; it took three days to walk through it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

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Genesis 22:3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

Matthew 21:28,29 But what think you? A certain man had two sons: and coming to the first, he said: Son, go work to day in my vineyard. . . .

2 Timothy 4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

an exceeding great city.

Genesis 30:8 For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.

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Psalm 36:6 Thy justice is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are a great deep. Men and beasts thou wilt preserve, O Lord:

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Psalm 80:10*marg.

Context
Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites
2And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time saying: 3Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.4And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.…
Cross References
Isaiah 37:37
And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

Jonah 1:2
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Jonah 4:11
And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

Jonah 3:2
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