nineveh in English

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an ancient city located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, opposite the modern city of Mosul. It was the oldest city of the ancient Assyrian empire and its capital until it was destroyed by a coalition of Babylonians and Medes in 612 bc.

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1. Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!

2. Ashurbanipal 023: Inscription from the Ištar Temple: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) slab: Ashurbanipal 024: Epigraph 1: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) slab (sculptured) Ashurbanipal 025: Epigraph 2: Kuyunjik (Nineveh) slab (sculptured) RINAP 5 : Ashurbanipal and Successors

3. Jehovah’s righteous anger against Nineveh simply abated.

4. 3:4 —How was Nineveh like a prostitute?

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6. Seeking wealth, the Scythians sacked the Assyrian capital, Nineveh.

7. The opulence of Ashurbanipal's court at Nineveh became legendary.

8. (Deuteronomy 32:4) Jehovah’s righteous anger against Nineveh simply abated.

9. (Nahum 2:2, 12, 13) “Woe to the city of bloodshed” —Nineveh.

10. Jonah’s later description of Nineveh also fits in with historical and archaeological evidence.

11. An object labelled the ivory prism was recovered from the ruins of Nineveh.

12. In its heyday, Nineveh may have been the largest city in the world.

13. He built a little shelter and settled in to wait and watch Nineveh.

14. The capital of Assyria was Nineveh, one of the greatest cities of ancient times

15. He built a little shelter and settled in to wait —and to watch Nineveh.

16. Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, was considered to be an architectural wonder.

17. Besides Ashur , the other three royal Assyrian cities were Calah (Nimrud), Khorsabad, and Nineveh.

18. At Nineveh archaeologists have found an account of the same events in the annals of Sennacherib.

19. All the settlements identified with Nineveh form a quadrangle with a circumference of 60 miles [100 km].

20. Cyrus II returned the sacred images of the Assyrians to Nineveh and Assur, established for them …

21. Perhaps because of the fierce reputation of the Assyrians, the thought of serving in Nineveh frightened Jonah.

22. (Zephaniah 2:13, 14) Today, visitors see that only a mound marks the desolate site of ancient Nineveh.

23. (Jonah 3:3) Three times, the record of Jonah quotes Jehovah as referring to “Nineveh the great city.”

24. Yet he refused to accept a commission to go to Nineveh to serve a warning to the people.

25. His visit to the ruins outside Mosul is one of the earliest accurate descriptions of the site of ancient Nineveh.

26. Consider, too, the explicit nature of this warning declared by the prophet Jonah: “Only forty days more, and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

27. Still, Jehovah has held back the promised destruction so that sincere people today, like repentant ones in Nineveh, can repent and be spared.

28. At that, “the men of Nineveh began to put faith in God, and they proceeded to proclaim a fast and to put on sackcloth.”

29. At any rate, it should be noted that the Bible account does not state that Sennacherib’s death occurred immediately upon his return to Nineveh.

30. 9 Jonah went out of Nineveh, built a booth, and sat in its shade “until he would see what would become of the city.”

31. In 612 b.c., however, Assyria's capital, Nineveh, was besieged and destroyed by a coalition of Medes, Scythians, and Chaldeans, decimating the previously powerful Assyrian Empire

32. His word occurred to Jonah, saying: “Get up, go to Nineveh the great city, and proclaim against her that their badness has come up before me.”

33. (Jonah 1:2) According to ancient historian Diodorus, Nineveh had a 100-foot (30-m) wall, wide enough for three chariots abreast to travel upon it.

34. The monarchs of Assyria, who hated Babylon with a passion since it constantly contemplated independence and sedition, destroyed that city and set up their capital in Nineveh

35. Shläma ~ 0ml4 Tren b'Shaba, Tabakh 16, 6771 - 10:23 b'lilya b'Nineweh, Atour Name: Assyria : Capital: Nineveh 36° 21′ 34″ N — 43° 9′ 10″ E: Regions:

36. When the word reaches the king of Nineveh, he rises from his throne, removes his official garment, covers himself with sackcloth, and sits down in the ashes.—Jonah 3:4-6.

37. According to the Bible book of Jonah, when that prophet received an assignment from God to preach a judgment message in the Assyrian capital, Nineveh, he fled in the opposite direction!

38. He tells us: “It became abundantly clear that the vast majority were like the people of Nineveh in Jonah’s day who ‘did not know the difference between their right and their left hand.’

39. The British adventurer Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was the single most important figure in the rediscovery of ancient Assyria, excavating two of its capital cities, Kalhu (Nimrud) and Nineveh, in 1845–51

40. Sculpted reliefs depicting Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king, hunting lions, gypsum hall relief from the North Palace of Nineveh ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Ashurbanipal had initially not been expected to succeed his father, Esarhaddon, as king, …

41. Ashurbanipal, also spelled Assurbanipal, or Asurbanipal, (flourished 7th century bc), last of the great kings of Assyria (reigned 668 to 627 bc), who assembled in Nineveh the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East.

42. Nineveh and Babylon became a possession for "the Bittern" and other wild birds, Isaiah 14:23 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14.According to some critics, the more probable meaning of the Hebrew word is hedge-hog, or porcupine; and Mr

43. 10 However, when Jonah declared the message of doom, “the men of Nineveh began to put faith in God, and they proceeded to proclaim a fast and to put on sackcloth, from the greatest one of them even to the least one of them.”

44. …Mesopotamia [now in Iraq]—died 1910), Assyriologist who excavated some of the finest Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities that are now in the possession of the British Museum and found vast numbers of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh (Nīnawā, Iraq) and Sippar (Abū Ḥabbah, Iraq), including the earliest known record of archaeological activity.

45. A source in Nineveh police told the correspondent of the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA / that "Daash Beheaded, in central Mosul, Louay Ibrahim Ahmed and his brother Adel Ibrahim Ahmed, residents of Hammam al-Alil in front of a large crowd of citizens for refusing to declare loyalty to the organization .

46. Other articles where Assyriology is discussed: Hormuzd Rassam: …Mesopotamia [now in Iraq]—died 1910), Assyriologist who excavated some of the finest Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities that are now in the possession of the British Museum and found vast numbers of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh (Nīnawā, Iraq) and Sippar (Abū Ḥabbah, Iraq), including the earliest known record of

47. Hormuzd Rassam, (born 1826, Mosul, Ottoman Mesopotamia [now in Iraq]—died 1910), Assyriologist who excavated some of the finest Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities that are now in the possession of the British Museum and found vast numbers of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh (Nīnawā, Iraq) and Sippar (Abū Ḥabbah, Iraq), including the earliest known record of archaeological activity.