Jonah 4:11

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Nineveh was the great Assyrian capital on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia, near modern Mosul, Iraq. In Jonah 4:11, its large population and moral ignorance underscore God’s sovereign compassion toward a foreign, sinful city, challenging Jonah’s reluctance to see Israel’s enemies spared.

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Jonah 4:11 mentions Nineveh.

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