Jonah 3:3

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So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.

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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, known as the center of a powerful and often brutal empire. Its size and significance heighten the force of Jonah’s renewed obedience: God sends him to proclaim His warning even to Israel’s formidable Gentile enemy.

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Jonah 3:3 mentions Nineveh.

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