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Bible Place Guide

Nineveh in the Bible

Assyrian capital connected to Jonah, Nahum, and the Assyrian crisis. See Scripture references, modern location, confidence level, and source attribution from Sacred Atlas.

Modern locationNineveh Governorate, Iraq
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs24

High confidence

Modern identification

Mosul area - Nineveh Governorate, Iraq

Coordinates36.3594, 43.1528
Kindsettlement
Claims7
Sources3

Scripture anchors

Jonah 1:2Jonah 3Nahum 12 Kings 19Gen 10:11Gen 10:122 Kgs 19:36Isa 37:37Jonah 3:2Jonah 3:3Jonah 3:4Jonah 3:5Jonah 3:6Jonah 3:7Jonah 4:11Nahum 1:1Nahum 1:8Nahum 1:11Nahum 1:14Nahum 2:1Nahum 2:5Nahum 2:7Nahum 2:8Nahum 2:9

Why this place is in the atlas

Assyrian capital connected to Jonah, Nahum, and the Assyrian crisis.

Claim ledger

names[0].value Nineveh Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - High
summary.en Assyrian capital connected to Jonah, Nahum, and the Assyrian crisis. Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - High
foreignKeys[0] ancientId: a70fd5d, urlSlug: nineveh, friendlyId: Nineveh OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 36.3594, longitude: 43.1528, precision: approximate OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
identifications[0].modernRegion Nineveh Governorate Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - High
scriptureReferences Jonah 1:2, Jonah 3, Nahum 1, 2 Kings 19 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High
temporalScopes 8th-7th centuries BC: Assyrian imperial power Sacred Atlas Editorial Review - CC-BY-4.0 - Medium