In The KJV Topics Bible

Nineveh

Bible verses about Nineveh in the King James Version.

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Capitol of the Assyrian Empire

  • Genesis 10:11

    Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

  • Genesis 10:12

    And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Contained a population of upwards of one-hundred and twenty thousand people, when Jonah preached

  • Jonah 4:11

    And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Extent of

  • Jonah 3:4

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

Sennacherib in

  • 2 Kings 19:36

    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

  • 2 Kings 19:37

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

  • Isaiah 37:37

    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

  • Isaiah 37:38

    And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jonah preaches to

  • Jonah 1:1

    Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

  • Jonah 1:2

    Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Jonah 3

Nahum prophesies against

Nahum 1, Nahum 2, Nahum 3

Zephaniah foretells the desolation of

  • Zephaniah 2:13–15

    And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.