³⁷ Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.

³ This time Jonah obeyed the Lord’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.^[a]

² “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.”

⁴¹ “The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here—but you refuse to repent.

1 This message concerning Nineveh came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.

¹¹ But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness,^[a] not to mention all the animals. Shouldn’t I feel sorry for such a great city?”

⁷ Listen! I myself will move against him,^[a] and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’”