Nave’s Topical Bible
Nineveh
11 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Capitol of the Assyrian Empire
- Contained a population of upwards of one-hundred and twenty Thousand people, when Jonah preached
- Extent of
- Sennacherib in
- Jonah preaches to
- Nahum prophesies against
- Zephaniah foretells the desolation of
Bible verses about “Nineveh”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 10:11Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
- Genesis 10:12And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
- Jonah 4:11And 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?
- Jonah 3:4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
- 2 Kings 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- 2 Kings 19:37And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
- Isaiah 37:37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- Isaiah 37:38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar–haddon his son reigned in his stead.
- Jonah 1:1Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,
- Jonah 1:2Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- Zephaniah 2:13And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
- Zephaniah 2:14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
- Zephaniah 2:15This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.