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The actual name used in the text is ŏs năp’ ər (אָסְנַפַּר). This is normally presumed to be Ashurbanipal. The background is this: The initial settlement of Assyrians in Israel (Samaria) was followed ...

The text and story of Jonah is very careful not to dwell much on the specific sins of the great city of Nineveh. However, we are given some strong pointers, the best is found in Jonah 3:4 Let each ...

No, Assyria only conquered Egypt in 673 BC under Esarhaddon, but the mention of Sargon is to precisely date when the oracle was given, not when it was fulfilled. In the fulfillment of the oracle, ...

Prophesy is often a kind of warning. Many of them were seen to happen in a much later time such as the destruction of Jerusalem by prophets Micah 150 years before; and king Antiochus IV Epiphanes ...

Assyria and its various leaders did not exist when Israel was in Egypt, so the best way to understand this verse is to see "the Assyrian" (Ashur) as a new oppressor. This did happen in fact,...

The MT (Codex Leningrad) for Isaiah 52:4 is: כִּי כֹה אָמַר אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה מִצְרַיִם יָרַד עַמִּי בָרִאשֹׁנָה לָגוּר שָׁם וְאַשּׁוּר בְּאֶפֶס עֲשָׁקוֹ In this verse, Egypt (מִצְרַיִם) is a place ...

I would agree that Jonah ("silly dove") hated and feared the Assyrians as a great and cruel power. Did he specifically see that their repentance would lead them to survive God's wrath and be ...

O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. — Isaiah 10:5 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our ...

Jonah lived in the heyday of the Northern Kingdom, when Jeroboam II was king. 2 Kings 14:23-27 read 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of ...

Aside from the references in the other answer by @Dottard, we do get one other hint in scripture. 2 Kings 19 tells of the worship of at least one other god in "Nineveh", which may have been ...