From Nave’s Topical Bible
Nineveh
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 15Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Capitol of the Assyrian EmpireGenesis 10:11Genesis 10:12
- Contained a population of upwards of one-hundred and twenty thousand people, when Jonah preachedJonah 4:11
- Extent ofJonah 3:4
- Sennacherib in2 Kings 19:362 Kings 19:37Isaiah 37:37Isaiah 37:38
- Jonah preaches toJonah 1:1Jonah 1:2Jonah 3
- Nahum prophesies againstNahum 1Nahum 2Nahum 3
- Zephaniah foretells the desolation ofZephaniah 2:13–15
The passages, in Bible order (15)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 15 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 10:11
From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Commentary on Genesis 10:112 voices
(Verse 11) From that land came Assur, and he built Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth. From this land of the Assyrians, the empire sprouted, founded by Ninus, son of Belus, and it is a great city which the Hebrews call Nineveh. The entire prophecy of Jonah pertains to its destruction or repentance. And when it says 'Nineveh and the city of Rehoboth,' we should not think that there are two cities, but because Rehoboth means streets, it should be read as 'And he built Nineveh, and the streets of the city.'
Jerome· Hebrew Questions on Genesis, 420Patristic
Out of that land went forth Ashur,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 10:12
and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
Commentary on Genesis 10:121 voice
And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
Commentary on 2 Kings 19:361 voice
Dwelt at Nineveh - The meaning is not that Sennacherib made no more expeditions at all, which would he untrue, for his annals show us that he warred in Armenia, Babylonia, Susiana, and Cilicia, during his later years; but that he confined himself to his own part of Asia, and did not invade Palestine or threaten Jerusalem anymore. Nineveh, marked by some ruins opposite Mosul, appears here unmistakably as the Assyrian capital, which it became toward the close of the 9th century B.C. It has previously been mentioned only in Genesis (marginal reference).
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 2 Kings 19:37
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Commentary on 2 Kings 19:371 voice
The death of Sennacherib, which took place many years afterward (680 B.C.), is related here, as, from the divine point of view, the sequel to his Syrian expeditions. Nisroch his god - Nisroch has not been as yet identified with any known Assyrian deity. The word may not be the name of a god at all but the name of the temple, as Josephus understood it. Assyrian temples were almost all distinguished by special names.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Isaiah 37:37
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
Commentary on Isaiah 37:372 voices
(Vrs. 36 seqq.) However, the Angel of God went out and struck down in the Assyrian camp 185,000 men; and when they arose in the morning, behold, all the dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned to Nineveh, and he lived there. And it came about as he was worshiping in the temple of Nesrach his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned,.... Being informed of the destruction of his army in this miraculous manner, he departed from the place where he was in all haste, fearing lest he himself should be destroyed in like manner; and having no forces to pursue his designs, or wherewith to make an attempt elsewhere, he made the best of his way at once into his own country, whither he returned with great shame and confusion: and dwelt at Nineveh; the metropolis of his kingdom; see Gen 10:11.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 37:38
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Commentary on Isaiah 37:382 voices
(Vrs. 36 seqq.) However, the Angel of God went out and struck down in the Assyrian camp 185,000 men; and when they arose in the morning, behold, all the dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned to Nineveh, and he lived there. And it came about as he was worshiping in the temple of Nesrach his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
Jerome· Commentary on Isaiah, 420Patristic
Third, as to the slaying of Sennacherib himself: and it came to pass, as he was worshipping . . . that Adramelech and Sarasar, his firstborn sons, who were envious of their younger brother, who was born of another mother, and whom they wished to …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on Isaiah, 1274Patristic
- Jonah 1:1
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
Commentary on Jonah 1:12 voices
"Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." Apart from that which the Septuagint translates as, "the noise of their wickedness has risen up even to me", it has translated the rest similarly. Jonah is sent to the gentiles to condemn Israel, because Nineveh had to repent, but the Israelites still persisted in their sin.
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 1, 420Patristic
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jonah 1:2
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
Commentary on Jonah 1:22 voices
"Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." Apart from that which the Septuagint translates as, "the noise of their wickedness has risen up even to me", it has translated the rest similarly. Jonah is sent to the gentiles to condemn Israel, because Nineveh had to repent, but the Israelites still persisted in their sin.
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 1, 420Patristic
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,.... That is, arise from the place where he was, and leave the business he was about, and prepare for a long journey to the place mentioned, and be as expeditious in it as possible.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jonah 3:1
Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
Commentary on Jonah 3:12 voices
"And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you." LXX: 'and the message of God came to Jonah a second time, saying, arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach there this message that I have told you'. He did not say to the prophet, "why have you not done what you were ordered to do?."
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 3, 420Patristic
And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jonah 3:4
On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
Commentary on Jonah 3:42 voices
"[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." LXX: 'he proclaimed and said, another three days and Nineveh will be destroyed". The umber three written in the Septuagint does not agree with the penitence, and I am quite astonished at this translation, for in Hebrew neither the letters or syllables or accents or the word show any common element. For three is said, salos and forty arbaim.
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 3, 420Patristic
And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jonah 4:11
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
Commentary on Jonah 4:112 voices
"Then said the LORD, You have had pity on the gourd, for the which you have not laboured, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 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?" LXX: 'and the Lord said, 'you wanted to keep safe a gourd which has done you no wickedness, that you have not cared for, which was born in one night and died in one night.
Jerome· Commentary on Jonah, Chapter 4, 420Patristic
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city?....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Nahum 1:1
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
Commentary on Nahum 1:12 voices
The burden of Nineveh,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The burden - Jerome: The word משׂא mas's'â', burden is never placed in the title, except when the vision is heavy and full of burden and toil. Of Nineveh - The prophecy of Nahum again is very stern and awful. Nineveh, after having repented at the preaching of Jonah, again fell back into the sins whereof it had repented, and added this, that, being employed by God to chasten Israel, it set itself, not to inflict the measure of Gods displeasure, but to uproot the chosen people, in whom was promised the birth of Christ .
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Nahum 2:1
One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
Commentary on Nahum 2:12 voices
He that dasheth in pieces - Rather, the Disperser, the instrument of God, whereby he should break her in pieces like a potters vessel, or should scatter her in all lands, is come up against thy face, O Nineveh, i. e., either, over against thee , confronting her as it were, face to face, or directed against thee . From the description of the peace of Judah, the prophet turns suddenly to her oppressor, to whom, not to Judah, the rest of the prophecy is directed. Jacob and Israel are spoken of, not to .
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
Chapter 2, verses 1 and 2: He who scatters has ascended before your face, guarding the siege: consider the way, strengthen your loins, greatly fortify your strength. For just as the Lord has repaid the pride of Jacob, so He will repay the pride of Israel. Because the desolators have scattered them and spoiled their branches. I am compelled by necessity to turn my course between the rocks and the cliffs, with imminent shipwreck, so as to navigate between the history and allegory of my discourse, and to be cautious lest it suddenly collide.
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic
- Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Commentary on Nahum 3:12 voices
(Chapter 3, verses 1 and following) Woe to the city of blood, full of deceit and torn apart. The plunder will not cease. The sound of the whip, the sound of the rattling wheel, the galloping horses and the blazing chariots, the ascending knight and the flashing sword, the gleaming spear and the multitude of the slain, and the weighty destruction. There is no end to the corpses.
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic
Woe to the bloody city,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Zephaniah 2:13–15
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
Commentary on Zephaniah 2:13–152 voices
Zephaniah began by singling out Judah amid the general destruction, I will also stretch out My Hand upon Judah Zep 1:4; he sums up the judgment of the world in the same way; He will stretch out, or, Stretch He forth, His Hand against the north and destroy Asshur, and make Nineveh a desolation. Judah had, in Zephaniahs time, nothing to fear from Assyria. Isaiah Isa 39:6 and Micah Mic 4:10 had already foretold, that the captivity would be to Babylon. Yet of Assyria alone the prophet, in his own person, expresses his own conformity with the mind of God.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
And he will stretch out his hand against the north,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed