How To Use Nineveh In A Sentence
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We have to disentomb the remains of the Thebes and the Ninevehs to get at the history of their ancient monarchs.
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Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit -- the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of M.sopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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[6] This expression of Josephus, that the Medes, upon this destruction of the Assyrian army, "overthrew" the Assyrian empire, seems to be too strong; for although they immediately cast off the Assrian yoke, and set up Deioces, a king of their own, yet it was some time before the Medes and Babylonians overthrew Nineveh, and some generations ere the
Antiquities of the Jews
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The library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh included catalogues of stellary and planetary observations, among others the times of Venus, Jupiter and Mars, and the phases of the moon, for every day in the month. [
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
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Nineveh, which had outrivalled Damascus, the Smile of the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Rapidly traversing the shrubless, herbless plains of Mesopotamia, they reached at length the town of Mosul, the point from which travellers proceed to visit the ruins of Nineveh.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
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Assyria, "and there" builded "Nineveh and Calah, The cuneiform inscriptions have informed us who this builder of Calah was.
Patriarchal Palestine
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From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
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This Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered in 1853 during excavations in the ruins of Nineveh, together with over twenty thousand other clay tablets from the library of King Assurbanipal 668–626 BC.
Modern Science in the Bible
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The same method, it is understood, has been applied to the deciphering of the cuneiform records recently disentombed from the ruins of Nineveh.
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When the prophet Jonah hears an inner voice calling him to teach in the Assyrian city of Nineveh, he books immediate passage on a boat - going in the other direction.
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a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their
The Certain Hour
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Arise, go to Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.
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Nineveh and Tyre; "when man with all his achievements and triumphs, his love and laughter, his songs and sighs, is forgotten even more completely than his Paleolithic ancestors; then, shall some portion of the nebula which now bejewels Andromeda's girdle become evolutionized into a flora and a fauna, a civilization and a spirituality unto which the visions of the wisest seers have never attained?
Some Winter Days in Iowa
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Cf. the last line of Jonah: “And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?”
Nths of a sending
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Rapidly traversing the shrubless, herbless plains of Mesopotamia, they reached at length the town of Mosul, the point from which travellers proceed to visit the ruins of Nineveh.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
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I sat and sipped my wine, thinking of the fate of cities, -- of Nineveh the renowned, of the marbles lately recovered from thence with the mysterious arrowheaded characters.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
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Over 4000 years ago the Sumerian merchants of Babylon and Nineveh recorded bills, receipts and promissory notes in cuneiform script on clay tablets.
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The alliance did him no good; it was revealed, to the court of Nineveh by the Assyrian party in Ephraim, and Hoshea was immediately seized as a rebellious vasal, shut up in prison, and apparently treated with the utmost indignity.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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In 1843 he was appointed British consul in Baghdad and this allowed extra time for his studies, especially work on cuneiform tablets found at Assyrian cities such as Nimrud and Nineveh.
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Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style.
The Certain Hour
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He now begins to justify himself in fleeing from the presence of the Lord, when he was first ordered to go to Nineveh, for which he had before, with good reason, condemned himself: "Lord," said he, "was not this my saying when I was in my own country?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Arise, go to Nineveh and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.
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We may conjecture that this place was the Resen, or Dase, of Holy Scripture, which is said to have been a large city, interposed between Nineveh and Calah.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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However, an account of his errand is brought to the king of Nineveh, not by way of information against
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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In a brazen and nearly unbelievable move, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by warlord Masoud Barzani has prevented voting by Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq.
Your Right Hand Thief
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From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
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The burden concerning Nineveh . The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
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The notion was to rehabilitate the reputation of Asurbanipal, the second-last King of Assyria, whom the Greeks called "Sardanapalus," who reigned in Nineveh six hundred years before
William of Germany
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From the captured prisoners, Alexander learned that Darius and his army were close by, beyond the hills to the east of Nineveh, not far from the town of Arbela.
Alexander the Great
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But God's plan was to teach Israel, by the example of Nineveh, how inexcusable is their own impenitence, and how inevitable their ruin if they persevere.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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In Nineveh, carefully negotiated agreements dictated where the Kurdish militias, or pesh merga, would be stationed around the polls, along with the local and national Iraqi police and the army.
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Arise, go to Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.
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Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their
The Certain Hour
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In 614 BCE a Median army under Cyaxares invaded the Assyrian homeland, attacked Nineveh and destroyed the ancient city of Ashur .
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In the book of Jonah, which most scholars consider post-exilic, God showers compassionate forgiveness on sinners in the faraway city of Nineveh.
One World, Under God
