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Jonah 3:4

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Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried out, and said, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"

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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 what is now northern Iraq. Jonah’s warning of imminent overthrow confronts Israel’s powerful enemy with God’s judgment, while setting the stage for Nineveh’s unexpected repentance and God’s mercy.

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Jonah 3:4 mentions Nineveh.

Nineveh · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

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