Written by Pastor Jack Wellman16 Interesting Bible Verses About Nineveh
Want to know more about Nineveh? Here are 16 interesting Bible verses about Nineveh to study and learn about the story of this capital city in the Bible and how it fell just as Nahum had prophesied despite It’s great power.
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And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,
- Jonah 3:7
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Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.
- Isaiah 37:37
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And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:5
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The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
- Matthew 12:41
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Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
- Jonah 3:4
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“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”
- Jonah 3:2
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And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, “Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?
- Nahum 3:7
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And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
- Jonah 4:11
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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth.
- Jonah 3:3
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For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.
- Luke 11:30
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Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
- Genesis 10:12
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The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 11:32
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The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
- Jonah 3:6
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“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
- Jonah 1:2
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Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back.
- Nahum 2:8
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And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
- Zephaniah 2:13
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