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Fall of Nineveh

The combined Medo-Babylonian army sacked Nineveh in 612 BC. Ancient accounts describe a flood of the Khoser or Tigris breaching the walls. The site was so thoroughly abandoned that Xenophon marched past it in 401 BC without recognizing it as a former capital. It remained lost until 19th-century archaeology rediscovered it.

Fulfillment Notes

- Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 3), British Museum - Xenophon, Anabasis 3.4.10-12 - Diodorus Siculus 2.26-27

Key Hebrew Terms

נִינְוֵה (ninveh, H5210); שַׁחַת (shachat, H7843); נָהָר (nahar, H5104); חוֹמָה (choma, H2346)

Linked Verses (7)

Nahum 1:8 source
KJV

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Nahum 1:9 source
KJV

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

Nahum 1:10 source
KJV

For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Nahum 2:6 source
KJV

The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Zephaniah 2:13 source
KJV

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Zephaniah 2:14 source
KJV

And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Zephaniah 2:15 source
KJV

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.