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- Nineveh, a place of Scripture.The great city of Assyria that repented in sackcloth at Jonah’s preaching, that Sennacherib returned to after Jerusalem was spared, and that fell in 612 BC as Nahum had said.
- Nineveh, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Nineveh Never Rebuilt, a messianic prophecy.Nineveh would never recover from its destruction.
- Nineveh Destroyed While Drunk, a messianic prophecy.Nineveh's defenders would be drunk when destroyed.
Featured studies
3 results- StudyJonah: the Study GuideA prophet commissioned to preach mercy to Israel's enemy flees instead, is pursued and delivered by the God whose mercy he resents, and is angrier at Nineveh's repentance than he ever was at his own…
- StudyNahum: the Study GuideThe sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later. God who is slow to anger and will not at all acquit the wicked, the siege of Nineveh in the most kinetic battle…
- StudyThe Sign of JonahAsked for a sign, Jesus gives exactly one: Jonah's own three days and three nights, pointing forward to His own three days in the heart of the earth: and a second edge: a greater than Jonah is here…
Verses
21 results- VerseGenesis 10:12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
- VerseNahum 1:1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
- VerseNahum 1:11From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.
- VerseGenesis 10:11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
- Verse2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
People
4 results- PersonNimrod“The mighty hunter before the LORD” and first empire-builder — founder of Babel and Nineveh, the seed of the world-city that opposes the city of God (10:8–12).
- PersonNahumThe Elkoshite (Nah 1:1), prophet of the burden of Nineveh — the sequel to Jonah: the city spared once, destroyed in 612 BC. His name means comfort. Hometown Elkosh disputed…
- PersonAshurbanipalAssyria's last great king, sacker of No-Amon (Thebes) in 663 BC — the precedent Nahum turns on Nineveh itself (Nah 3:8); likely the "great and noble Osnappar" of Ezra 4:10. His…
- PersonJonahThe prophet who fled his commission, prayed from the fish's belly, preached Nineveh's overthrow, and sulked at its mercy — the sign Jesus claimed for his own death and…
Places
4 results- PlaceNinevehThe great city of Assyria that repented in sackcloth at Jonah’s preaching, that Sennacherib returned to after Jerusalem was spared, and that fell in 612 BC as Nahum had said.
- PlaceAssyriaMesopotamian empire whose capital Nineveh repented at Jonah's preaching and fell to Nahum's burden in 612 BC; the rod of God's anger against the northern kingdom (722 BC).
- PlaceLachishJudah's second city, besieged by Sennacherib in 701 BC, its siege carved on the walls of his palace at Nineveh and confirmed in the ground.
- PlaceNo-Amon (Thebes)Thebes, the great southern capital of Egypt sacked by Ashurbanipal in 663 BC, which Nahum held up to Nineveh as the precedent for its own fall.
Words (Strong's)
3 results- WordH5210 נִינְוֵה · Nîynᵉvêh (Hebrew)Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. The Hebrew word stands 17 times in the original text.
- WordG3536 Νινευΐτης · Nineuḯtēs (Greek)a Ninevite, i.e. inhabitant of Nineveh. The Greek word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordG3535 Νινευΐ · Nineuḯ (Greek)Ninevi (i.e. Nineveh), the capital of Assyria. A Greek word of the lexicon floor, with its parsing and its occurrences on the word page.
Themes
3 results- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
Topics
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5 results- ProphecyNineveh Never RebuiltNineveh would never recover from its destruction.
- ProphecyNineveh Destroyed While DrunkNineveh's defenders would be drunk when destroyed.
- ProphecyNineveh's DestructionA messianic prophecy: what was spoken, where it was written, and where the New Testament takes it up.
- ProphecyNineveh's Permanent DisappearanceNahum and Zephaniah predicted Nineveh's total disappearance—not merely defeat but permanent obliteration with no recovery.
- ProphecyNineveh's Destruction by Flood and FireNahum predicted Nineveh's destruction by a combination of flood and fire, with the river gates opened and the palace dissolved.
Apologetics
2 results- ApologeticsThe Fall of Nineveh: Nahum Against the Babylonian ChronicleNahum 1-3 foretells an overwhelming flood, fire, plunder, and erasure of Nineveh. The Babylonian Chronicle (BM 21901) and Greek histories trace the 612 BCE fall.
- ApologeticsNineveh's Total Obliteration Prophesied by NahumNahum predicted the 'utter end' of Nineveh including its specific mode of destruction by flood—fulfilled so completely that its location was unknown for 2,400 years until…