Bible Dictionary: Nineveh: Jonah Sent to Proclaim the Destruction of

◄ Nineveh: Jonah Sent to Proclaim the Destruction of ►

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jonah 1:2
Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Jonah 3:1,2,4
And the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

"Nineveh, that Great City"
... death, and brake their bands in sunder." "He sent His word ... invitations of mercy,
as did the inhabitants of Nineveh under the preaching of Jonah, and become ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 22 nineveh that great.htm

Guilty Silence and Its Reward
... If he had been sent to destroy it, he would ... a Hebrew, at the other end of the world
from Nineveh. ... of escape indicates the obstinacy of determination in Jonah. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/guilty silence and its reward.htm

Threefold Repentance
... Jonah was sent to Nineveh to cry, 'Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown,' in order that it might not be overthrown. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/threefold repentance.htm

Who Can Tell?
... No mercy glanced from Jonah's eye, no pity was in his heart ... He was sent with a
thundering commission and he dealt it out in ... "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/who can tell.htm

Mercy, Omnipotence, and Justice
... He will not smite Nineveh until he hath sent a Jonah. ... God is slow to threaten. He
will not send a Jonah to Nineveh, until Nineveh has become foul with ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/mercy omnipotence and justice.htm

The Land and the People.
... deny the biblical records of Babylon and Nineveh after these ... good tidings to the
poor; he hath sent me to ... forgot in their blind passion that Jonah was from ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 17 the land and.htm

Scriptural Poems; Being Several Portions of Scripture Digested ...
... Now unto Jonah, old Amittai's son, Thus did the word of the ... forthwith and cry 'Gainst
that great city Nineveh; for why ... a great wind did raise, And sent a mighty ...
/.../scriptural poems being several portions.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... parable, "The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the ... 13, 14), has been attributed
to Jonah, son of ... the harems of Damascus, Tyre, or Nineveh.** Descendants of ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

An Exhortation to Theodore after his Fall. Letter I.
... Deliver such an one to Satan for destruction of the ... prophets and stonest them that
are sent unto thee ... plainly threatening; "yet three days and Nineveh shall be ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/an exhortation to theodore after.htm

Subtopics

Nineveh

Nineveh: Called the Bloody City

Nineveh: Capitol of the Assyrian Empire

Nineveh: Commercial

Nineveh: Contained a Population of Upwards of One-Hundred and Twenty Thousand People, when Jonah Preached

Nineveh: Destruction of, Averted

Nineveh: Extensive

Nineveh: Extent of

Nineveh: Full of Joy and Carelessness

Nineveh: Full of Lies and Robbery

Nineveh: Full of Witchcraft