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Ancient Nineveh Site
This sketch is a map of the site of
ancient Nineveh.
In ancient times Nineveh was
an important city, it was the capital of the Assyrian empire.
The Bible mentions Nineveh often:
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?
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?
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Genesis
10:11 - Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded
Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
2 Kings
19:36 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Isaiah
37:37 - So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went
and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Jonah 3:2
- Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach
unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
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.
Nahum 1:1
- The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of
Nahum the Elkoshite.
Genesis
10:12 - And Resen between Nineveh and Calah:
the same [is] a great city.
Jonah 1:2
- Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry
against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
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.
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