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Nineveh in the Bible
Nineveh is the great Assyrian capital Jonah is sent to and Nahum announces the fall of. Its repentance in Jonah is the book's scandal; its destruction in 612 BC is the prophets' vindication.
Archaeology
Sennacherib's palace at Kuyunjik produced the Lachish reliefs showing the siege of a Judean city, and the library of Ashurbanipal preserved tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets.
Verses mentioning Nineveh
18 occurrences across 17 verses in the King James Version.
- Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, went: or, he went out into Assyria the city: or, the streets of the city
Read in context - Genesis 10:12
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
Read in context - 2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Read in context - Isaiah 37:37
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Read in context - Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Read in context - Jonah 3:2
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
Read in context - Jonah 3:3
So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. exceeding: Heb. of God
Read in context - Jonah 3:4
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Read in context - Jonah 3:5
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Read in context - Jonah 3:6
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Read in context - Jonah 3:7
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: published: Heb. said nobles: Heb. great men
Read in context - Jonah 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Read in context - Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Read in context - Nahum 2:8
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. of old: or, from the days that she hath been look back: or, cause them to turn
Read in context - Nahum 3:7
And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
Read in context - Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
Read in context - Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
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