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“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
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Verse 2. Ninive, the capital city of the Assyrian empire. Challoner.—It was 150 stadia long and 90 broad, (Diod. ii.) on the western bank of the Tigris. Pliny vi. 13.—Mosul, which some mistake for it, stands on the northern side. See Genesis 10:10. At the time when Jonas preached, Ninive would contain about 600,000. Calmet. 4:11. They were people less favoured by God, (Acts 14:15. Calmet.) but not abandoned. Theod.—God took sufficient care of all his creatures, and foretold many things relating to foreign nations. Calmet.—Romans 3:29. Worthington.—For the. Septuagint add, “cry of.” Genesis 4 and 18. Bible.
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