NINEVEH

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• Genesis 10:11

  Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

• Genesis 10:12

  and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

• 2 Kings 19:36

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

• 2 Kings 19:37

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

• Isaiah 37:37

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

• Isaiah 37:38

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

• Jonah 1:1

  Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

• Jonah 1:2

  “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

• Jonah 3:4

  Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

• Jonah 4:11

  Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

• Zephaniah 2:13

  He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

• Zephaniah 2:14

  Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.

• Zephaniah 2:15

  This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.