Nineveh
33 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- Called the Bloody City
- Capitol of the Assyrian Empire
- Commercial
- Contained a Population of Upwards of One-Hundred and Twenty Thousand People, when Jonah Preached
- Destruction of, Averted
- Extensive
- Extent of
- Full of Joy and Carelessness
- Full of Lies and Robbery
- Full of Witchcraft
- Great
- Idolatrous
- Inhabitants of, Repented at Jonah's Preaching
- Jonah Preaches To
- Jonah Sent to Proclaim the Destruction of
- Nahum Prophesies Against
- Origin and Antiquity of
- Populous
- Predictions Respecting: Being Taken While People Were Drunk
- Predictions Respecting: Captivity of Its People
- Predictions Respecting: Coming up of the Babylonish Armies Against
- Predictions Respecting: Complete Desolation
- Predictions Respecting: Degradation and Contempt Put On
- Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Its Idols
- Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Its People
- Predictions Respecting: Feebleness of Its People
- Predictions Respecting: Spoiling of Its Treasures
- Predictions Respecting: Utter Destruction
- Rich
- Sennacherib In
- Situated on the River Tigris
- Strong
- The Ancient Capital of Assyria
- Vile
- Wicked
- Zephaniah Foretells the Desolation of
Called the Bloody City
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Capitol of the Assyrian Empire
- Genesis 10:11–12 From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, …
Commercial
- Nahum 3:16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
Contained a Population of Upwards of One-Hundred and Twenty Thousand People, when Jonah Preached
- Jonah 4:11 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
Destruction of, Averted
- Jonah 3:10 When God saw their actions— that they had turned from their evil ways— He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
- Jonah 4:11 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
Extensive
- Jonah 3:3 This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.
Extent of
- Jonah 3:4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
Full of Joy and Carelessness
- Zephaniah 2:15 This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
Full of Lies and Robbery
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Full of Witchcraft
- Nahum 3:4 because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
Great
Idolatrous
- Nahum 1:14 The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
Inhabitants of, Repented at Jonah's Preaching
- Jonah 3:5–9 And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least. …
- Matthew 12:41 The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
- Luke 11:32 The men of Nineveh will stand at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now One greater than Jonah is here.
Jonah Preaches To
- Jonah 1:1–2 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying, …
- Jonah 3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
Jonah Sent to Proclaim the Destruction of
- Jonah 1:2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
- Jonah 3:1–2 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: …
- Jonah 3:4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
Nahum Prophesies Against
- Nahum 1:1 This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
- Nahum 2:1 One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Origin and Antiquity of
- Genesis 10:11 From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Populous
- Jonah 4:11 So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
Predictions Respecting: Being Taken While People Were Drunk
- Nahum 1:10 For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard — like stubble that is fully dry.
- Nahum 3:11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
Predictions Respecting: Captivity of Its People
- Nahum 3:10 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
Predictions Respecting: Coming up of the Babylonish Armies Against
- Nahum 2:1–4 One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength! …
- Nahum 3:2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
Predictions Respecting: Complete Desolation
- Zephaniah 2:13–15 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. …
Predictions Respecting: Degradation and Contempt Put On
- Nahum 3:5–7 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. …
- Zephaniah 2:15 This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Its Idols
- Nahum 1:14 The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- Nahum 2:7 It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Predictions Respecting: Destruction of Its People
- Nahum 1:12 This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
- Nahum 3:3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
Predictions Respecting: Feebleness of Its People
- Nahum 3:13 Look at your troops — they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
Predictions Respecting: Spoiling of Its Treasures
- Nahum 2:9 “Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
Predictions Respecting: Utter Destruction
- Nahum 1:8–9 But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness. …
Rich
- Nahum 2:9 “Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
Sennacherib In
- 2 Kings 19:36–37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. …
- Isaiah 37:37–38 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. …
Situated on the River Tigris
Strong
- Nahum 3:12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
The Ancient Capital of Assyria
- 2 Kings 19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
- Isaiah 37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
Vile
- Nahum 1:14 The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
Wicked
- Jonah 1:2 “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
Zephaniah Foretells the Desolation of
- Zephaniah 2:13–15 And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. …
Related topics
Revivals in NinevehNisrochRegicide of SennacheribNahumCalahPatricide of Sennacherib
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.