Genesis 10:11-12
10:11 From that land he went
to Assyria,
where he built Nineveh,
Rehoboth-Ir,
Calah,
10:12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
Jonah 1:2
1:2 “Go immediately
to Nineveh,
that
large capital
city,
and announce judgment against
its people
because their wickedness
has come to my attention.”
Jonah 3:3
3:3 So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the
Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city
– it required three days to walk through it!)
Nahum 1:1
Introduction
1:1 The oracle against Nineveh;
the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
Matthew 12:41
12:41 The people
of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented when Jonah preached to them
– and now,
something greater than Jonah is here!