WHAT HAPPENED TO NINEVEH AFTER THE TIME OF JONAH?
If you put “Nineveh” in a Bible search engine such as www.biblegateway.com, you pull up the
book of Jonah. After that you come to the prophecies of Nahum and Zephaniah
against Assyria and specifically, Nineveh.
Nahum
1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Nahum
2:8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away.
Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
Nahum
3:7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee
from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I
seek comforters for thee?
Zephaniah
2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria;
and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
The repentance we will read about in the study of Jonah was
short-lived. Jonah preached to them in 760 b.c., and the city was destroyed in
612 b.c., only 148 years later. The city was conquered and reduced to rubble by
her enemies.
It would not be until the 1800s
that archaeologists would excavate portions of the ancient city. Nineveh had
indeed been “hidden,” as Nahum predicted long ago (Nahum 3:11).
Nahum 3:10-12 (CJB) Still she went captive into exile, her infants torn to pieces at every streetcorner. Lots were
drawn for her nobles, and all her great men were bound in chains. You too, [Nineveh,]
will be drunk; your senses completely overcome. You too will seek a refuge from the enemy. All your fortifications will be like fig trees
with early ripening figs;
the moment they are shaken, they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
From these verses, we see the ultimate end of Nineveh was
to reap the violence and cruelty they had sewn.
Galatians
6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap.
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