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Nineveh

Nineveh

The Great City Spared

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The vast capital of the Assyrian Empire, on the Tigris River.
One of the greatest and most feared cities of the ancient world.
The empire that destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BC.
The city God sent the reluctant prophet Jonah to warn — and that repented.
Later destroyed (~612 BC), just as the prophet Nahum had foretold.

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