Biblical place
Nineveh
The principal city of Assyria, on the eastern bank of the Tigris.
36.3598° N · 43.152° E
Scripture references
- Genesis 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineueh, and the citie Rehoboth, and Calah,
- Genesis 10:12 And Resen betweene Nineueh and Calah: the same is a great citie.
- 2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.
- Isaiah 37:37 ¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.
- Jonah 1:2 Arise, goe to Nineueh that great citie, and cry against it: for their wickednes is come vp before me.
- Jonah 3:2 Arise, goe vnto Nineueh that great citie, and preach vnto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- Jonah 3:3 So Ionah arose and went vnto Nineueh, according to the word of the LORD: now Nineueh was an exceeding great citie of three dayes iourney.
- Jonah 3:5 ¶ So the people of Nineueh beleeued God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them euen to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:6 For word came vnto the King of Nineueh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him and couered him with sackcloth, & sate in ashes.
- Jonah 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineueh (by the decree of the King and his nobles) saying; Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flocke taste any thing; let them not feede, nor drinke water.
- Jonah 4:11 And should not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattell?
- Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineueh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nahum 2:8 But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand shall they cry: but none shal looke backe.
- Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to passe, that all they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say; Nineueh is layde waste, who will bemoane her? whence shall I seeke comforters for thee?
- Zephaniah 2:13 And he wil stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, and wil make Nineueh a desolation, and dry like a wildernes.