The Nineveh: The Capital City of the Ancient World

We struggle with these parts of the Bible that depict God as seriously ticked off at what humans are doing and bringing judgment. And so part of it is that we don't get where Jonah and his people would be at in relationship to the Nineveh. So let's start there. Assyria was the biggest, baddest empire that the ancient world had known up to that point. They were utterly brilliant at looking at territories that didn't belong to them but also notoriously brutal.