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Nineveh
Town or city mentioned in 30 verses of the Bible, most often in Nahum.
Where it appears
Nahum (14), Jonah (8), Genesis (2), Luke (2), 2 Kings (1), Isaiah (1), Zephaniah (1), Matthew (1)
Key verses
- Genesis 10:11 first mention — Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
- Jonah 1:2 — Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Jonah 3:2 — Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- Jonah 3:5 — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:6 — For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Jonah 4:11 — 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?
- Nahum 1:1 — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nahum 1:8 — But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
- Nahum 1:14 — And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
- Nahum 3:11 — Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- Zephaniah 2:13 — And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- Matthew 12:41 — The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
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