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Jonah 3:2

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"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you."

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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 city of the Assyrian Empire, located on the Tigris River in present-day northern Iraq. Its importance in this passage lies in God’s renewed command for Jonah to proclaim His message to a powerful, pagan, and morally corrupt people.

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Jonah 3:2 mentions Nineveh.

Nineveh · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

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