HISTORY
OF NINEVEH
This may take a few days because we want to make each post
readable in just a few minutes, but we want to give a thorough background. So
hold onto your hats as we explore a bit of history.
THE FOUNDING OF NINEVEH
Genesis
10:6-11 (AMPC) The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt [Mizraim], Put, and Canaan.
The
sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of
Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Cush
became the father of Nimrod; he was the first to be a mighty man on the earth. He
was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, Like Nimrod, a
mighty hunter before the Lord. The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech,
Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia]. Out of the land he
[Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah
Nimrod, a mighty hunter, founded the city of Nineveh. He
was the son of Ham who was the son of Noah. You may remember that Ham was the
son who saw Noah naked and instead of covering him up went and told his two
brothers. They walked in backwards so as to not see their father in his
drunken, naked state; and they covered him. Therefore, Noah pronounced a curse
on Ham’s son Canaan (father of the Canaanites, a people God would later tell
the Israelites to destroy.) (Genesis 9). Nimrod was one of Ham’s other sons, but
he was father of the entire Tower of Babel fiasco. So, Nineveh had problems
from the get-go.
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