Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.

亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。

亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。

亚述王西拿基立就拔营回去，住在尼尼微。

亚述王西拿基立便拔营回国，住在尼尼微。

于是亚述王西拿基立拔营离开，回去住在尼尼微。

亞述王西拿基立就拔營回去，住在尼尼微。

亞述王西拿基立就拔營回去，住在尼尼微。

亞述王西拿基立就拔營回去，住在尼尼微。

亞述王西拿基立便拔營回國，住在尼尼微。

於是亞述王西拿基立拔營離開，回去住在尼尼微。

亞述王西拿基立拔了營走，就回去，住在尼尼微。

亞述王西拿基立遂去而返、居於尼尼微、

亞述王西拿基立遂歸尼尼微、

亞述王西拿基立遂返、居於尼尼微、

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, took the army tents down. Then he left. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh.

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

So Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

“ Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are.”

The king will return to his own country by the same road on which he came. He will not enter this city, says the Lord.

And because of your raging against me and your arrogance, which I have heard for myself, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I will make you return by the same road on which you came.”

Listen! I myself will move against him, and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’”

“ Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”This time Jonah obeyed the Lord’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds:“ Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!”The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes.Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city:“ No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all.People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.

From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth ir, Calah,and Resen( the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).

This message concerning Nineveh came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.

Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir! The people are slipping away.“ Stop, stop!” someone shouts, but no one even looks back.

“ The people of Nineveh will stand up against this generation on judgment day and condemn it, for they repented of their sins at the preaching of Jonah. Now someone greater than Jonah is here— but you refuse to repent.