Nineveh in a sentence

After Jonah has walked across Nineveh, the people of Nineveh begin to believe his word and proclaim a fast.

Genesis 10:11 attributes the founding of Nineveh to an Asshur : "Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh".

Nineveh is ironically compared with a lion, in reference to the lion as an Assyrian symbol of power; Nineveh is the lion of strength that has a den full of dead prey but will become weak like the lion hiding in its den.

The king hunting lion from the North Palace, Nineveh seen at the British Museum Sennacherib It was Sennacherib who made Nineveh a truly magnificent city (c. 700 BC).

Citing a "preliminary tally", 's official INA news agency reported that health authorities in Nineveh province had "counted 100 dead and more than 150 injured in the fire at a marriage hall in Hamdaniyah", as the town is also known.

Levi Friend, 19, of Nineveh Gardens in Leeds, has been charged with aggravated burglary other than a dwelling and possessing a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public place.

On the 26th of this month, more than 100 people were killed and dozens injured after a large fire devastated a hall where a wedding was being held in the al Hamdaniya district of Nineveh province in northern Iraq.

And the people of Nineveh were writing works of profanity, stealing from one another, engaging in all kinds of perversity, and other such wicked things.

After hearing about the Lord from Jonah, the people of Nineveh turn from their ways and the city is saved (Jonah 3:1-10).

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Iraqi Intelligence Service announced that its forces has identified and dismantled a terrorist gang and arrested all its members in Nineveh province.

Some important military positions, including head of military in Nineveh (a Sunni-majority region), were given to Arab Sunni military commanders.

An Iraqi soldier frisks a displaced Iraqi man at a temporary camp in the compound of the closed Nineveh International Hotel in Mosul on 16 June 2017 which was recovered by Iraqi troops from Islamic State group fighters earlier in the year.

Its territory spread east into the plains of Nineveh, the biblical city where the extremists turned centuries-old churches into bomb factories.

He is scheduled in the coming days to travel to northern Iraq to meet with Kurdish leaders in Irbil and to celebrate Mass in Qaraqosh in the Nineveh plains, near Mosul, according to the Vatican.

I often liken my story to that of Jonah, who God told to go to Nineveh but for selfish reasons went to Tarshish.

Khodr says education authorities in Nineveh province have pledged to establish a school for older kids.

The day’s Scripture readings, in which Jonah was sent to Nineveh and Jesus set out toward Galilee, “reveal a God who turns his gaze toward cities, past and present,” the pope said in his homily.

The judges’ spokesman, Laith Hamza, said on Saturday that the partial recount would start Tuesday in the Kurdish provinces of Arbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk, as well as in Kirkuk, Nineveh, Salaheddin and Anbar.

We were diverted onto a minor road that twisted through the desert scrub of the Nineveh plains.

After losing control over Media the Scythians continued intervening in Middle Eastern affairs, playing a leading role in the destruction of the Assyrian Empire in the Sack of Nineveh in 612 BC.