Jonah 1:2

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"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."

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The Assyrian EmpireThe extent of the Assyrian Empire that conquered the northern kingdom of Israel.

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Nineveh was the great Assyrian city on the Tigris River in present-day northern Iraq, notorious for its wickedness and the target of God’s command to Jonah. Joppa, a Mediterranean port in present-day Israel, is where Jonah later sought a ship to flee from this mission.

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Jonah 1:2 mentions Joppa and Nineveh.

Photo of Nineveh — Nineveh · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)