place
Nineveh
נִינְוֵהΝινευΐ
- verses
- 19
- first named
- Genesis 10:11
- last named
- Matthew 12:41
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 36.36°N · 43.15°E
Nineveh (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Nineveh in the text
Nineveh was the capital city of the ancient Assyrian Empire, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in modern-day Iraq. It is first mentioned in the Bible as one of the cities founded by Nimrod, along with Rehoboth-Ir (Gen. 10:11-12). Nineveh became the capital of Assyria during the reign of Sennacherib (c. 705-681 BC) and was known for its size, power, and splendor (Jonah 3:3; 4:11).
In the book of Jonah, Nineveh is portrayed as a city of great wickedness, whose evil had come to God's attention (Jonah 1:2). Jonah was sent to preach against Nineveh, warning of its impending destruction. To Jonah's surprise, the people of Nineveh, from the king to the lowliest citizen, repented in response to his message (Jonah 3:5-9). As a result, God relented and spared the city (Jonah 3:10).
Despite this remarkable event, Nineveh remained a symbol of Assyrian power and a threat to Israel and Judah. The prophets Nahum and Zephaniah both foretold the eventual destruction of Nineveh as a judgment against Assyria's wickedness and oppression (Nah. 1:1; 2:8; 3:7; Zeph. 2:13). Nineveh fell to the Babylonians and Medes in 612 BC, marking the end of the Assyrian Empire.
In the New Testament, Jesus refers to the repentance of the Ninevites as a rebuke to his unbelieving generation (Matt. 12:41; Luke 11:30, 32).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Is a
Stands in the same events as
- LORD7 events
- Sennacherib4 events
- Jonah3 events
- Calah2 events
- Command1 event
- Assyria1 event
- Descendants1 event
- Herd1 event
- Lying Down1 event
- Flood1 event
- Nimrod1 event
The pattern
Where Nineveh is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
19 verses across 8 of 66 books; 58 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (2), 2 Kings (1), Isaiah (1), Jonah (8), Nahum (3), Zephaniah (1), Matthew (1) and Luke (2).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 19, across 8 books. The name is written 22 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one.
Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Jonah 3In Nineveh, the people believed God, fasted, wore sackcloth, and turned from their evil ways.
- Jonah 4Nineveh was the city Jonah watched while the LORD considered its people and cattle.
- Nahum 1Nineveh produces a plotter of evil, faces an overwhelming flood, and is promised an empty name and a prepared grave.
- Nahum 2Nineveh is besieged, breached, emptied, and left without the voices of its messengers.
- Nahum 3Nineveh is denounced as a city of blood and later receives applause when its downfall is heard.
- Matthew 12At Nineveh, the men repented at the preaching of Jonah.
Sources