Jonah 4:5

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Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.

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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 to which Jonah had preached God’s warning; after its people repented, God spared it. Jonah sat east of the city, waiting to see whether judgment might still fall, revealing his anger at God’s mercy toward Israel’s enemies.

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Jonah 4:5 mentions Nineveh.

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