Place
Nineveh
The great city of Assyria, three days' journey across, that repented in sackcloth at Jonah's preaching — and a century later fell under Nahum's burden, "the bloody city."
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Where it is
- Region
- Assyria
- Kind of place
- City
Nineveh in Scripture
18 verses name it — all of them- Genesis 10:11Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,
- Genesis 10:12and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
- 2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- Isaiah 37:37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- Jonah 1:2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Jonah 3:2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days’ journey.
- Jonah 3:4And 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 3:5And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:6And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Jonah 3:7And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
- Jonah 4:11and should not I have regard for 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 1:1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nahum 2:8But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
- Nahum 3:7And 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?
- Zephaniah 2:13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.
- Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 11:32The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.