Jonah Jonah opens with the Lord telling Jonah to "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before Me" (Jonah 1:2). What was so great about Nineveh and why was God interested in it in ~750 BCE? Archaeologist Henry Layard's image of Nineveh. Nineveh was… Continue reading Jonah: The setting.

