CHAPTER 2
Nineveh shall be destroyed, which is a type of what shall be in the
latter days.
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The destruction of Nineveh foretold by Nahum, which is a type of what shall
be in the latter days even likely of the same regions as was Nineveh (Northern
Iraq, Mosul).
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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.
9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and
wastea: and the heart
melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins,
and the faces of them all gather ablackness.
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10a She is empty, and void, and
waste In the day of Jonah Nineveh was referenced as an 'exceeding
great city'. It laid upon the eastern bank of the Tigris about the region of
modern-day Mosul in northern Iraq. Though preserved in Jonah's day, the
Medes and Babylonians combined to utterly destroy Nineveh in 612 BC, it being
'razed to the ground'. Thence the Medes and Babylonians divided its
provinces between them. Any of the scattered Israelites thereof were thus
either assorb into the Mede/Babylonian Empire or further scattered north as
the would have fleed, 'flee away ... none shall look back'.
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