Great capital on the Tigris, founded according to Genesis 10 by and known in the prophets as an exceedingly large city of three days' journey. is sent there reluctantly with a forty-day warning, and from king to commoner the city fasts in sackcloth so that the threatened overthrow is averted. A century later announces its definitive downfall in vivid scenes of chariots and floodwaters, and pictures it abandoned with flocks lying down in its midst.
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Modern location: Nineveh. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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