Trustworthy History

 The Bible prophet Nahum described Nineveh as "the lair of the lions" and "the city of bloodshed." He added: "Prey does not depart! There is the sound of the whip and the sound of the rattling of the wheel, and the dashing horse and the leaping chariot. The mounted horseman, and the flame of the sword, and the lightning of the spear. and the multitude of the slain ones, and heavy mass of carcasses; and there is no end to the dead bodies. They keep stumbling among their dead bodies." (Nahum 2:11; 3:1-3) Does secular history corroborate the Bible's description of ancient Assyria? 

The book Light From the Ancient Past Calls Assyria "the ruthless fighting machine whose calculated frightfulness was the terror of its enemies."  The following is the way one Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, boasted of his treatment of those who opposed him.

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