11 From that land he went to Assyria(A) and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,

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11 From that land he went to Assyria,(A) where he built Nineveh,(B) Rehoboth Ir,[a] Calah

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares

“Get up!(A) Go to the great city(B) of Nineveh(C) and preach against it,(D) because their wickedness(E) has confronted[a] Me.”(F)

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  1. Jonah 1:2 Or has come up to

“Go to the great city of Nineveh(A) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

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So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the Lord’s command.

Now Nineveh was an extremely large city,[a](A) a three-day walk.[b]

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  1. Jonah 3:3 Or was a great city to God
  2. Jonah 3:3 Probably the time required to cover the city on foot

Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very large city; it took three days to go through it.

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11 Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh,(A) which has more than 120,000 people[a] who cannot distinguish between their right and their left,(B) as well as many animals?”(C)

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  1. Jonah 4:11 Or men

11 And should I not have concern(A) for the great city of Nineveh,(B) in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

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13 He will also stretch out His hand against the north
and destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a desolate ruin,(A)
dry as the desert.

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Assyria

13 He will stretch out his hand against the north
    and destroy Assyria,(A)
leaving Nineveh(B) utterly desolate
    and dry as the desert.(C)

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