Fondare 36 Risultati per: Nineveh
He issued a proclamation throughout Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles, no people or beasts, herd or flock, will taste anything; neither will they eat nor drink. (Jonah 3, 7)
Jonah then left the city. He went to a place east of it, built himself a shelter and sat under its shade to wait and see what would happen to Nineveh. (Jonah 4, 5)
But Nineveh has more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot distinguish right from left and they have many cattle as well. Should I not be concerned for such a great city?" (Jonah 4, 11)
Oracle against Nineveh. This is the book of the vision which Nahum of Elkosh has seen. (Nahum 1, 1)
To the people of Nineveh, here is Yahweh's decree. "No descendants shall bear your name. I will abolish from your temple the carved image and the molten idol. I will make your tomb an object of shame." (Nahum 1, 14)
Yahweh will now restore Jacob's magnificence, like Israel's splendor. For they had been plundered, laid waste as a ravaged vineyard. Nineveh shall fall (Nahum 2, 3)
Against Nineveh a destroyer advances. Watch the road, man the fortress; brace yourselves, muster your forces. (Nahum 2, 2)
Nineveh looks like a pool with its waters running away: All flee: "Stop, stop!" but no one comes back. (Nahum 2, 9)
so that all who look on you will turn their backs in disgust and say: Nineveh - a city of lust - is in ruins. Who will mourn for her? Where can we find one to comfort her? (Nahum 3, 7)
He will leave Nineveh in utter desolation, barren as the desert. Herds of all kinds of animals shall find shelter in her, and even the pelican and the heron shall dwell in her ruins; the owl shall hoot from the window and the raven from the threshold. (Zephaniah 2, 14)
As Jonah became a sign for the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be a sign for this generation. (Luke 11, 30)
The people of Nineveh will rise up on Judgment Day with the people of these times and accuse them, for Jonah's preaching made them turn from their sins, and here there is greater than Jonah. (Luke 11, 32)