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William Branham taught that Jonah might or might not have been out of the will of God. But a couple of things were certain. Nineveh was a port city on the ocean and was a city of fisherman. The main God of Nineveh was a whale god because of the city's proximity to the ocean. | |||
But what does the Bible teach? | |||
=What does the Bible say?= | =What does the Bible say?= | ||
Does the Bible tell us who the God of Nineveh was? Do we know where Nineveh was located? | |||
==Where was Nineveh located?== | |||
Nineveh was founded by Nimrod (Asshur), as the marginal reading of Gen. 10:11 states, and was situated on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, opposite the modern town of Mosul. It was about 250 miles in a direct line north of the rival city of Babylon. | |||
When Nineveh became the capital of Assyria is not definitely known, but it is generally believed it was during the reign of Sennacherib. The prophecies of the books of Jonah and Nahum are chiefly directed against this city. The latter prophet indicates the mode of its capture. Nah. 1:8; 2:6, 8; 3:18. Nineveh was the capital of Assyria during the height of the grandeur of that empire, and in the time of Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Assurbanipal. It was besieged for two years by the combined forces of the Medes and Babylonians, was captured, and finally destroyed B. C. 606.<ref>Philip Schaff, ed., A Dictionary of the Bible: Including Biography, Natural History, Geography, Topography, Archæology, and Literature (Philadelphia; New York; Chicago: American Sunday-School Union, 1880), 614.</ref> | |||