Nineveh
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for
their wickedness is come up before me....
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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....
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And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same [is] a great
city....
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The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite....
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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....
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Capitol of the Assyrian Empire
Ge 10:11,12
-Contained a population of upwards of one-hundred and twenty
thousand people, when Jonah preached
Jon 4:11
-Extent of
Jon 3:4
-Sennacherib in
2Ki 19:36,37; Isa 37:37,38
-Jonah preaches to
Jon 1:1,2; 3
-Nahum prophesies against
Na 1; 2; 3
-Zephaniah foretells the desolation of
Zep 2:13-15...
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(abode of Ninus), the capital of the ancient kingdom and
empire of Assyria. The name appears to be compounded from
that of an Assyrian deity "Nin," corresponding, it is
conjectured, with the Greek Hercules, and occurring in the
names of several Assyrian kings, as in "Ninus," the mythic
founder, according to Greek tradition of the city. Nineveh...
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Nimrod builded Nineveh (Genesis 10:11); Herodotus (i. 7)
makes Ninus founder of Nineveh. and grandson of Belus
founder of Babylon; which implies that it was from Babylon,
as Scripture says, that Nineveh's founder came. Nin is the
Assyrian Hercules. Their mythology also makes Ninus son of
Nimrod. Jonah is the next Scripture after Genesis 10 tha...
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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?...
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