2Ki 19:36, Isa 37:37, Jon 1:2, Jon 3, Nah 1:1, 2:8, 3:7, Zep 2:13 | ESV | STEP | Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh .

2 “Arise, go to ^cNineveh, that ^dgreat city, and call out against it, ^efor their evil ^{▼▼The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah} has come up before me.”

Jonah 3

Jonah Goes to Nineveh

1 Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to ^gNineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now ^hNineveh was an exceedingly great city, ^{▼▼Hebrew a great city to God} three days’ journey in breadth. ^{▼▼Or a visit was a three days’ journey} 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 ^kAnd the people of Nineveh believed God. ^lThey called for a fast and ^mput on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.

The People of Nineveh Repent

6 The word reached ^{▼▼Or had reached} the king of Nineveh, and ^ohe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, ^pand sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, ^q“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor ^rbeast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and ^sbeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. ^tLet everyone turn from his evil way and from ^uthe violence that is in his hands. 9 ^vWho knows? God may turn and relent ^wand turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”

10 When God saw what they did, ^xhow they turned from their evil way, ^yGod relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Nahum 1:1

1 ^zAn oracle concerning ^aaNineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

Nahum 2:8

8 ^abNineveh is like a pool
whose waters run away. ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain}
“Halt! Halt!” they cry,
but ^adnone turns back.

Nahum 3:7

7 And all who look at you ^aewill shrink from you and say,
“Wasted is ^afNineveh; ^agwho will grieve for her?”
^ahWhere shall I seek comforters for you?

Zephaniah 2:13

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north
^aiand destroy Assyria,
and he ^ajwill make Nineveh a desolation,
a dry waste like the desert.