Did You Know? -What happened to Nineveh after the days of Jonah?

 BY THE seventh century B.C.E. Assyria had become the world's largest empire, "stretching from Cyprus in the west to Iran in the east, and at one point it even included Egypt," noted the British Museum Blog.  Its capital, Nineveh, was the largest city in the world. It boasted impressive monuments, spectacular gardens, luxurious palaces, and extensive libraries. Wall inscriptions from ancient Nineveh show that King Ashurbanipal, like other Assyrian kings, called himself "king of the world." At the time, Assyria and Nineveh seemed unconquerable.

Nevertheless. when Assyria had reached its greatest heights, Jehovah's prophet Nahum foretold: "Plunder silver, plunder gold! . . .The city is empty, desolate, devastated!" (Zephaniah2:13; Nahum 2:9, 10; 3:7) On hearing these prophecies, people may have wondered: 'Could that ever be possible? Could mighty Assyria ever be conquered?' It must have seemed unbelievable.

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