The people in Nineveh were very wicked.
The people of Nineveh were wicked people.
And Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
Nineveh's massive walls did not prevent
Nineveh was deemed fit for destruction.
Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city,
hoping it would be ancient Nineveh.
for his palace at Nineveh.
Nineveh and Its Remains, 1849,
Ashur, Nineveh, Mari, Ebla, Ugarit, and Amarna.
it was the rival of Ecbatana, Nineveh and Babylon.
Nineveh's massive walls did not prevent
the fulfillment of Nahum's prophecy.
In ancient times, Nineveh was likely understood to include other
The people of Nineveh, clearly, were in possession of great hearts.
Even the king of Nineveh repented. - Jonah 3: 1- 6.
and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
For a period of time, people doubted whether Nineveh had ever existed!
In 632 B.C. E., Nineveh was destroyed, never to rise up again.
Only 15 years after Zephaniah spoke that prophecy, mighty Nineveh was destroyed,
No wonder Nineveh was called“ the city of bloodshed”! -
Nahum 3: 1, 7.
Fear of man caused him to run in a direction away from Nineveh.
Of course, this did not only apply to the common people of Nineveh;
So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh.
When the word reaches the king of Nineveh, he rises from his throne,
The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne,
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation,
He later uncovered the Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh with‘no less than seventy-one halls'.
The people of Nineveh repented and asked God to pardon them also through prayer.