Jonah 3:4 Thus, a 40-day countdown began for the people of Nineveh to repent. Nineveh's guilt was concerning the Assyria's oppression against the Jewish people, taking them into captivity to Assyria ...

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Jonah hurries to tell Nineveh that it’s doomed. But the city repents, and God forgives the people, which frustrates the prophet — after all, why all the drama if nothing was going to happen?

(RNS) — God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza.

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God sending Jonah to Nineveh would be like telling a modern-day rabbi to preach in Iran or Gaza, says Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese.

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There is a second postmark for Nineveh, one of the great cities of antiquity, now called Mosul, Iraq. In the Bible, Jonah was ordered to go to Nineveh and warn the people about the city’s ...

After he came to, Jonah went to Nineveh, the capital city of the Assyrian empire, and preached to the people and their king. They all repented, and their city was saved.