Minor Old Testament prophet Nahum wrote about the Assyrian city of Nineveh, which lies on the banks of which river?
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Nahum Nahum ( or ; Hebrew: נַחוּם‎ "Naḥūm") was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. He wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in a vivid poetic style.
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Nineveh Nineveh ( ; Akkadian: "Ninua" ) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It is also a common name for the half of Mosul which lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris in the modern day.
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Medinet Habu (location) Medinet Habu (Arabic: Arabic: مدينة هابو‎ ‎ ; Egyptian: "Tjamet" or "Djamet"; Coptic: "Djeme" or "Djemi") is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt. Although other structures are located within the area, the location is today associated almost exclusively (and indeed, most synonymously) with the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III.
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Moab Moab ( ; Moabite: 𐤌𐤀𐤁 "mʾb"; <a href="Arabic%20language">Arabic</a>: مؤاب‎ ‎ "muʾāb"; ; <a href="Ancient%26nbsp%3BGreek">Ancient Greek</a>: Μωάβ "Mōáb"; <a href="Akkadian%20language">Assyrian</a> "Mu'aba", "Ma'ba", "Ma'ab"; <a href="Egyptian%20language">Egyptian</a> "Mu'ab") is the historical name for a mountainous tract of land in <a href="Jordan">Jordan</a>. The land lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. The existence of the Kingdom of Moab is attested to by numerous archaeological findings, most notably the Mesha Stele, which describes the Moabite victory over an unnamed son of King Omri of Israel. The Moabite capital was Dibon. According to the Hebrew Bible, Moab was often in conflict with its Israelite neighbours to the west.
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Wadi Mujib Wadi Mujib, which is "almost certainly" known in the Hebrew Bible as River Arnon, is a river in Jordan which enters the Dead Sea c 420 m below sea level.
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Mazaalah Mazaalah (Arabic: مزعلة‎ , "Maz‘alah " ‎ ) is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria. Situated on the northern Manbij Plain, about halfway between Jarabulus and the lower course of Sajur River, the village is located about 8 km west of river Euphrates and about south of the border to the Turkish province of Gaziantep.
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Kadesh (Syria) Kadesh (also Qadesh) was an ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or a ford of the Orontes River. It was of some importance during the Late Bronze Age, and is mentioned in the Amarna letters. It was the site of the Battle of Kadesh between the Hittite and Egyptian empires in the 13th century BC.
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Kanah Kanah (ka'-na: Ishish.Manish.reedy; brook of reeds) is a stream referred to in the Hebrew Bible forming the boundary between Ephraim and Manasseh, from the Mediterranean Sea eastward to Tappuah ( ). It has been identified with the sedgy streams that constitute the Wady Talaik, which enters the sea between Joppa and Caesarea Maritima. The stream rises in the Southwest of Shechem, flows through Wady Ishkar and joining the Aujeh, reaches the sea not far to the north of Jaffa. Others identify it with the river Aujeh.
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Zechariah 7 Zechariah 7 is the seventh chapter of the Book of Zechariah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Zechariah, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.
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Wadi al-Taym Wadi al-Taym, also transliterated as Wadi el-Taym is a wadi (dry river) that forms a large fertile valley in southern Lebanon, near Hasbaya on the western slopes of Mount Hermon.
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Nuzi Nuzi (or Nuzu; Akkadian Gasur; modern Yorghan Tepe, Iraq) was an ancient Assyrian Mesopotamian city southwest of the major Assyrian city of Arrapha (Karka modern Kirkuk in modern Al Ta'amim Governorate of Iraq), located near the Tigris river. The site consists of one medium-sized multiperiod tell and two small single period mounds.
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Bakhdida Bakhdida (Syriac: ܒܲܓܼܕܹܝܕܵܐ‎ , Arabic:بخديدا) ] , also known as Baghdeda, Qaraqosh, or Al-Hamdaniya, is an Assyrian city in northern Iraq within the Nineveh Governorate, located about 32 km (20 mi) southeast of the city of Mosul and 60 km west of Erbil amid agricultural lands, close to the ruins of the ancient Assyrian cities Nimrud and Nineveh. It is connected to the main city of Mosul by two main roads. The first runs through the towns of Bartella and Karamles which connects to the city of Erbil as well. The second, which was gravel until being paved in the 1990s, is direct to Mosul.
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Judaean Desert The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה‎ ‎ "Midbar Yehuda", both "Desert of Judah" or "Judaean Desert"; Arabic: صحراء يهودا‎ ‎ "Sahara Yahudan") is a desert in Israel and the West Bank that lies east of Jerusalem and descends to the Dead Sea. It stretches from the northeastern Negev to the east of Beit El, and is marked by terraces with escarpments. It ends in a steep escarpment dropping to the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. The Judaean Desert is crossed by numerous wadis from northeast to southeast and has many ravines, most of them deep, from 1,200 feet in the west to 600 feet in the east. The Judaean Desert is an area with a special morphological structure along the east of the Judaean Mountains.
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Abila (Decapolis) Abila, distinguished as Abila in the Decapolis (Greek: Ἄβιλα Δεκαπολεος , "Abila Dekapoleos") and also known for a time as Seleucia (Greek: Σελεύκεια , "Seleúkeia"), was an ancient city in the Decapolis; the site, now referred to as Quwaylibah (Arabic: قويلبة‎ ‎ ) is occupied by two tells (Tell al-Abila and Tell Umm al-Amad) and the village of Hartha, approximately 13 km north-northeast of Irbid, Jordan. The site is 25 km east of the Sea of Galilee and 4 km south of the Yarmouk River. The name "Abila" is derived from the Semitic word Abel (in Hebrew, "meadow" and in Arabic, "green growth").
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Berothah Berothah (Hebrew "bērôṯâ") is a city named in Ezekiel 47:16, located on the northern boundary of the ideal state of Israel. It is probably to be identified with Berothai "(bērôṯay)", an ancient Syrian city ruled by Hadadezer bar Rehob, king of Zobah, in the early tenth century BCE. According to II Samuel 8:8, King David of Israel pillaged the city of a great quantity of bronze or copper.
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Mount Hor Mount Hor (Hebrew: הֹר הָהָר‎ , "Hor Ha-Har") is the name given in the Old Testament to two distinct mountains. One borders the land of Edom in the area south of the Dead Sea, and the other is by the Mediterranean Sea at the Northern border of the Land of Israel. Mount Hor is significant to the Jews as Aaron the high priest, brother of Moses, died there.
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Book of Lamentations The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה‎ , "‘Êykhôh", from its incipit meaning "how") is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem. In the Hebrew Bible it appears in the Ketuvim ("Writings"), beside the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes and the Book of Esther (the Megilloth or "Five Scrolls"), although there is no set order; in the Christian Old Testament it follows the Book of Jeremiah, as the prophet Jeremiah is its traditional author. Jeremiah's authorship is no longer generally accepted, although it is generally accepted that the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon in 586 BCE forms the background to the poems. The book is partly a traditional "city lament" mourning the desertion of the city by God, its destruction, and the ultimate return of the divinity, and partly a funeral dirge in which the bereaved bewails and addresses the dead. The tone is bleak: God does not speak, the degree of suffering is presented as undeserved, and expectations of future redemption are minimal.
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Rubutu Rubutu was a city, or city-state located in ancient northern Israel, between the city of "Gazru"-(modern Gezer), and Jerusalem during the time of the Amarna letters correspondence, a 15-20 year period at about 1350-1335 BC. Some scholars place Rubutu near present-day Arrabah in the northern West Bank.
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Dead Sea The Dead Sea (Hebrew: יָם הַמֶּלַח‎   lit. Salt Sea; Arabic: البحر الميت‎ ‎   ) is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and Palestine to the west. Its surface and shores are 430.5 m below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea is 304 m deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2%, (in 2011), it is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean and one of the world's saltiest bodies of water. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 50 km long and 15 km wide at its widest point. It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
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Zechariah 12 Zechariah 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Zechariah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Zechariah, and is a part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets.
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Tishbe Tishbe, sometimes transliterated as Thisbe, is, according to tradition, identical to the historical town of Listib ("el-Ishtib" or "el-Istib" in Arabic), the ruins of which are located 13 kilometers north of the Jabbok River (presently the Zarqa River) in the historical region Gilead referenced in Sacred Scripture, and just west of Mahanaim and only a little beyond the northwest limits of Ajloun in the Ajloun Governorate in northern Jordan. Albeit debated by scholars, "1 Kings", 17: 1 indicates that Tishbe was the residence and possibly even birthplace of the Prophet Elijah (see Tishbite). However, the toponym may denominate another location, as discussed below.
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Jeremiah 19 Jeremiah 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.