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==Was the God of Nineveh a "Whale-God"==
==Was the God of Nineveh a "Whale-God"==
[[Image:Nisroch.png|thumb|250px|right|Nisroch, the god of Nineveh]]
[[Image:Nisroch.png|thumb|250px|right|Nisroch, the god of Nineveh]]
The Bible is clear who the god of Nineveh was and it was not a whale-god!
The Bible is clear who the god of Nineveh was.


Nisroch was the god of King Sennacherib, in whose temple at Nineveh the king was assassinated by Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons (see 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). Nisroch was the city god of Nineveh, the chief capital of the Assyrian Empire; scholars speculated that he was perhaps identical with the Assyrian god Nusku.<ref>Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Nisroch,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 1556–1557.</ref>
Nisroch was the god of King Sennacherib, in whose temple at Nineveh the king was assassinated by Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons (see 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38). Nisroch was the city god of Nineveh, the chief capital of the Assyrian Empire; scholars speculated that he was perhaps identical with the Assyrian god Nusku.<ref>Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Nisroch,” Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 1556–1557.</ref>
Why did William Branham insist on saying that the god of Nineveh was a "whale god"?  Did he just make it up?


=Quotes of William Branham=
=Quotes of William Branham=