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The Prophet Jonah before the Walls of Nineveh, drawing by Rembrandt, c. 1655 Nineveh was the flourishing capital of the Assyrian Empire [ 41 ] and was the home of King Sennacherib , King of Assyria, during the Biblical reign of King Hezekiah ( חִזְקִיָּהוּ ) and the lifetime of Judean prophet Isaiah ( ישעיה ).
The prophet Jonah appears in 2 Kings aka 4 Kings and is therefore thought to have been active around 786–746 BC. [15] A possible scenario which facilitated the acceptance of Jonah's preaching to the Ninevites is that the reign of Ashur-dan III saw a plague break out in 765 BC, revolt from 763-759 BC and another plague at the end of the revolt.
In chapter 3, God once again commands Jonah to travel to Nineveh and to prophesy to its inhabitants. [27] This time he obeys God's command, and goes into the city, crying, "In forty days Nineveh shall be overthrown." [28] After Jonah has walked across Nineveh, the people of Nineveh begin to believe his word and proclaim a fast. [29]
The context in Isaiah 23:6 and 66:19 seems to indicate that it is an island, and from Israel it could be reached by ship, as attempted by Jonah (Jonah 1:3) and performed by Solomon's fleet (2 Chronicles 9:21). [11]
Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré, in La Grande Bible de Tours. Jonah is the central character in the Book of Jonah, in which God commands him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it "for their great wickedness is come up before me," [12] but Jonah instead attempts to flee from "the presence of the Lord" by going ...
It commemorates the three days that the people of Nineveh fasted in repentance after Jonah's call for them to repent. [1] For Christians, these three days are a direct parallel of and a prophecy about the three days that Christ spent in the tomb, just like the three days Jonah spent in the belly of the fish.
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Nineveh's current location is marked by excavations of five gates, parts of walls on four sides, and two large mounds: the hill of Kuyunjik and hill of Nabi Yunus. [15] A mosque atop Nabi Yunus was dedicated to Jonah and contained a shrine, which was revered by both Muslims and Christians as the site of Jonah's tomb. [16]