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	Nineveh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nineveh fell in 612 BC, and was razed to the ground.
		Nineveh was the flourishing capital of the Assyrian empire (2 Kings 19:36; Isa.
		Nineveh's exemplary pride and fall are recalled in the Gospel of Matthew (12:41) and the Gospel of Luke (11:32).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nineveh (1717 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - NINEVEH: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nineveh was the most famous of the cities which were in succession the residences of the kings of Assyria.
		Nineveh was the strongest of several fortress-cities which were built in the triangular territory between the Tigris and the upper Zab.
		Nineveh seems to have been made the capital of the whole of Assyria by Shalmaneser I. c.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=296&letter=N&search=nineveh (895 words)

	Destruction Of Nineveh - Assyrian Empire - Bible Prophecy
		Nineveh was established by Nimrod, "the mighty hunter" (Gen. 10:8-10).
		"Nineveh was laid waste as ruthlessly and completely as her kings had once ravaged Susa and Babylon; the city was put to the torch, the population was slaughtered or enslaved, and the palace so recently built by Ashurbanipal was sacked and destroyed.
		Nineveh knows not that God who contends with her, but is told what a God he is. It is good for all to mix faith with what is here said concerning Him, which speaks great terror to the wicked, and comfort to believers.
	www.padfield.com /1996/nineveh.html (956 words)

	Nineveh
		Nineveh was situated on the east bank of the Tigris near modern Mosul.
		Most of Nineveh's period of existence is mainly prehistoric: a 30 metre long shaft dug in 1931-32 from the top to virgin soil proved that only 20% of the debris belonged to the period of recorded history.
		705: King Sennacherib establishes Nineveh as the new capital of the Assyrian Empire, at the expense of Dar Sharrukin.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nineveh.htm (276 words)

	Nineveh
		The name appears to be compounded, from that of an Assyrian deity, "Nin," corresponding, it is conjectured, with the Greek Hercules, and occurring in the names of several Assyrian kings, as in "Ninus," the mythic founder, according to Greek tradition of the city.
		To all appearance Nineveh took its name from the Babylonian Nina near Lagas in South Babylonia, on the Euphrates, from which early foundation it was probably colonized.
		The palaces at Nineveh were built upon extensive artificial platforms between 30 and 50 ft. high, either of sundried brick, as at Nimroud, or of earth and rubbish, as at Kouyunjik.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/nineveh.htm (5422 words)

	Nineveh - Crystalinks
		705 BC: King Sennacherib establishes Nineveh as the new capital of the Assyrian Empire, at the expense of Dar Sharrukin.
		There is some evidence that the defeat of Nineveh was the occasion of rejoicing in Judah, although the Assyrians established a new capital at Harran.
		On 15 Oct. 2005, the province of Nineveh cast the deciding votes in the referendum for Iraq's Constitution.
	www.crystalinks.com /nineveh.html (1252 words)

	nineveh - Smith's Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nineveh is situated on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, 50 miles from its mouth and 250 miles north of Babylon.
		The destruction of Nineveh occurred B.C. The city was then laid waste, its monuments destroyed and its inhabitants scattered or carried away into captivity.
		--The ruins of Nineveh have furnished a vast collection of inscriptions partly carved on marble or stone slabs and partly impressed upon bricks anti upon clay cylinders, or sixsided and eight-sided prisms, barrels and tablets, which, used for the purpose when still moist, were afterward baked in a furnace or kilo.
	www.studylight.org /dic/sbd/view.cgi?word=Nineveh&action=Lookup (1343 words)

	Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh
		Nineveh itself fell to the Medes and Babylonians in 612 B.C., its splendor buried under the shifting dust of northern Mesopotamia.
		In 1847 the young British adventurer Austen Henry Layard explored the ruins of Nineveh and rediscovered the lost palace of Sennacherib across the Tigris River from modern Mosul in northern Iraq.
		As a member of the University of California, Berkeley, team at Nineveh in 1989 and 1990, I took roughly 900 photographs of the remains of the throne-room suite.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/nineveh (2730 words)

	Nineveh Consulting
		Nineveh can call on a number of associates and partners to help its customers build effective ICT Infrastructure strategies to support their business objectives.
		Nineveh has a number of experienced IT directors and technical leaders in its associate network and is always willing to discuss possible interim management options with local authorities.
		Nineveh is very strongly committed to the integrity of all training and seminar services we deliver or have delivered on our behalf.
	www.nineveh.co.uk /2.htm (1496 words)

	Nineveh articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nineveh NINEVEH [Nineveh], ancient city, capital of the Assyrian Empire, on the Tigris River opposite the site of modern Mosul, Iraq.
		A shaft dug at Nineveh has yielded a pottery sequence that can be equated with the earliest cultural development in N Mesopotamia.
		He was besieged in Nineveh by the Medes for two years, at the end of which time he set fire to his palace and burned himself and his court to death.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/09274.html (508 words)

	Nineveh on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		NINEVEH [Nineveh], ancient city, capital of the Assyrian Empire, on the Tigris River opposite the site of modern Mosul, Iraq.
		Nineveh was thereafter generally the capital, although Sargon built Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad) as his capital.
		It continued to be the leader of the ancient world until it fell to a coalition of Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians in 612 BC and the Assyrian Empire came to an end.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nineveh.asp (345 words)

	Search Results for "Nineveh"
		A shaft dug at Nineveh has yielded a pottery sequence that can be equated with the earliest...
		Nineveh and therefore S of present Mosul, Iraq.
		Known as Calah in the Bible, it is the same as the ancient Nimrud, named after a legendary Assyrian hunting hero....
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Nineveh (308 words)

	Nineveh
		Nineveh, the capital of ancient Assyria, lies on the left bank of the Tigris River opposite present-day Mosul, Iraq.
		Holding an important position on the main river crossing in the fertile northern Mesopotamian plain but only intermittently governed by local rulers, Nineveh was dominated in the 3d millennium BC by the Agade and Ur empires and in the 2d millennium by the Mitanni and Kassite empires.
		Nineveh was first surveyed in 1820; intermittent excavation by various expeditions took place from 1842 to 1931; more recent work, including some restoration, has been undertaken by the Iraq Department of Antiquities.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txh/nineveh.htm (1496 words)

	Fall of Nineveh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nineveh was the capital of Assyria and is shown to be the nation pictured as the devil in the accounts of Hezekiah.
		Nineveh repented under Jonah’s preaching and Nineveh was spared eternal judgment.
		The fall of Nineveh is equal to the destruction of man’s self-rule.
	www.thehansons.org /JonahCh7.htm (2795 words)

	The Men of Nineveh Shall Rise In Judgment - Assyrian News Agency
		Nineveh, one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient Assyrian empire 6000 BC, and its capital from 705 to 612 BC, has outlived many constitutions, governments, and tyrants in the past and will continue to do so as predicted in the bible:
		Nineveh’s constituencies votes along with the other three critical provinces of Salah al-Din, Anbar, and Diyala will ascertain the defeat of the Shiite/Kurd constitution by a two-third majority vote, unless urgent amendments are made to the draft charter before October 15, 2005.
		AssyriaSat (the Assyrian Global Television Network) constantly receives news from Nineveh of the intimidation force the Kurdish militias are using to stop the people from voting on Oct 15, and the amount of bribes they have paid some Christian clergies to encourage their congregation to submit to the Kurdish oppression and invasion of their lands.
	assyriatimes.com /engine/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3093 (641 words)

	Nineveh, Iraq
		The ancient city of Nineveh is situated just outside Mosul on the east bank of the River Tigris.
		Nineveh was the 3rd capital of Assyria Empire after Assur and Nimrud, dating from the reign of the great
		On one of the two most prominent mounds of Nineveh ruins, rises the Mosque of Prophet Younis "Biblical Jonah" (pbuh), the son of Amittai, from the 8th century BC which is believed to be the burial place of him, and where King Esarhaddon had once built a palace.
	www.atlastours.net /iraq/nineveh.html (451 words)

	Nineveh
		Nineveh was the capital of the Assyrian Empire, one of the great enemies of the Nation of Israel in the Bible.
		Nineveh lies on the east bank of the Tigris a few kilometers downhill from the beginning of the Kurdish mountains.
		The local people never forgot the location of Nineveh, but Europeans were unaware of the location of the city until the mid-1800's.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects97/kingp/nineveh.html (1030 words)

	POLITICS-IRAQ: Witnesses Describe Ballot Fraud in Nineveh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However the IECI in Nineveh had told the media on Oct. 16 and again on Oct. 17 that 327,000 people had voted for the constitution and only 90,000 against, with only 25 out of the 300 polling stations in the province remaining to be counted.
		Nineveh Deputy Governor Khasro Goran, a ranking member of the KDP, personally gave the orders that the 500 Kurds were to be allowed to vote, according to the second account to the military.
		In Telkaif, where 70 percent of the votes were recorded as "yes" votes, according to the military's informant, a local eyewitness in the town told NGOs that the voting center in the town was staffed entirely by KDP personnel, including an employee known to the source as a KDP secret police agent.
	ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=30888 (1385 words)

	Did God destroy Nineveh or what?
		God won't destroy Nineveh (Jonah 3:10) - "When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them.
		When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ashes.
		And he issued a proclamation and it said, "In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing.
	www.carm.org /diff/Jonah3_10.htm (353 words)

	TO: NINEVEH FROM: NAHUM
		Nineveh the great is desolate, disgraced and devastated (2:10; 3:5-7).
		As a result of Jonah's preaching, Nineveh repented of her evil ways and there was a great revival throughout the city.
		While Nahum's message was primarily directed against Nineveh, and therefore was a word of encouragement for Judah, there was a word of warning here for Judah as well.
	www.growingchristians.org /dfgc/nahum.htm (1853 words)

	Archaeological Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Thus then Nimrod, or Ninus, was the builder of Nineveh and the origin of the name of that city, as “the habitation of Ninus,”; is accounted for.Light is thereby, at the same time, cast on the fact that the name of the chief part of the ruins of Nineveh is Nimrud at this day.
		So wrote Byron of the siege of Jerusalem, undertaken by the Assyrian king Sennacherib in 701 BC from Nineveh capital of the greatest empire the world had ever known.
		For two and one-half millennia, the only known account of this momentous event was in II Kings 18-19, which reports that Sennacherib's invincible army was laid low by the angel of the Lord, after which Sennacherib returned to Nineveh where his sons murdered him.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/middle_east/nineveh.html (511 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Nineveh
		Nineveh was located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River in northeastern Mesopotamia (Iraq).
		Nineveh was the city that the reluctant prophet Jonah was sent to by God.
		However, after a famous adventure with a whale at sea he accepted what he was to do - get the people of Nineveh to repent of their evil.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/nineveh.htm (321 words)

	Culture Without Context: Modern Sack of Nineveh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Nineveh itself fell to the medes and Babylonians in 612 BC, its splendour buried under the shifting dust of northern Mesopotamia.
		Considering that the palace had been destroyed by an intense conflagration during the sack of Nineveh in 612 BC, the massive stone walls and many of the relief sculptures of Sennacherib's throne-room suite were surprisingly well-preserved.
		As a member of the University of California, Berkeley, team at Nineveh in 1989 and 1990, I took roughly 900 photographs of the remains of the throne-room suite, with the objective of recording the surviving sculptures in detail.
	www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk /IARC/cwoc/issue1/nineveh.htm (3871 words)

	Chapter 20: From the Fall of Nineveh to the Fall of Judah
		The reaction of at least one individual to the fall of Nineveh is preserved in a poem echoing sheer mocking joy in the defeat of Assyria.
		The prophet may have been a Judaean who reacted with intense pleasure at the news of Nineveh's defeat or he may have been a descendant of the exiles of Israel living in a village near enough to Nineveh to enable him to witness the siege, thus accounting for the graphic descriptions in his poem.
		The portrayal is from one of the wall panels of Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh (early seventh century).
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/gerald_larue/otll/chap20.html (7645 words)

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