Nineveh

Ashur went out from that land and built Ninveh, the city Rechovot, Kelach,

and Resen between Ninveh and Kelach — that one is the great city.

So Sancheriv king of Ashur left, went and returned to live in Ninveh.

So Sancheriv king of Ashur left, went and returned to live in Ninveh.

"Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention."

"Set out for the great city of Ninveh, and proclaim to it the message I will give you."

So Yonah set out and went to Ninveh, as ADONAI had said. Now Ninveh was such a large city that it took three days just to cross it.

Yonah began his entry into the city and had finished only his first day of proclaiming, 'In forty days Ninveh will be overthrown,'

when the people of Ninveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

When the news reached the king of Ninveh, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth and sat in ashes.

He then had this proclamation made throughout Ninveh: "By decree of the king and his nobles, no person or animal, herd or flock, is to put anything in his mouth; they are neither to eat nor drink water.

So shouldn't I be concerned about the great city of Ninveh, in which there are more than 120,000 people who don't know their right hand from their left - not to mention all the animals?"

This is a prophecy about Ninveh, the book of the vision of Nachum the Elkoshi:

Ninveh is like a pool whose water ebbs away. "Stop! Stop!" But none of it goes back.

Then all who see you will recoil from you; they will say, 'Ninveh is destroyed!' Who will mourn for her? Where can I find people to comfort you?"

He will stretch out his hand against the north; he will destroy Ashur; he will make Ninveh desolate, as dry as the desert.

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned from their sins to God when Yonah preached, but what is here now is greater than Yonah.

For just as Yonah became a sign to the people of Ninveh, so will the Son of Man be for this generation.