Subject: were the Ninevites fish god worshippers? |
Bible Note: Hi MJH, Oh no, you are not wrong, they are land locked, with the exception of the river on their East side; in fact the Tigris River at Nineveh was 450 miles from “the†beach, by crow flight, if one could hop a flight on a crow. I shouldn’t have said, “their†beach, but “the†beach, I stand corrected. How long do you suppose it actually took Jonah to get there? News traveled by word of mouth in those days and everybody liked to listen to the 11:00 o’clock evening news. The City of Nineveh itself was a three days journey just to cross it and he was only one day or a third of the way into the city before he even started to preach. The story of Jonah and the big fish, with indigestion, was probable the talk of the town and well known, days before Jonah opened his mouth and warned them of the overthrow that was coming. It was likely weeks before he actually gave them the message from the time he was regurgitated. On top of all that he probably smelled so bad that it took over a week to just to get the smell off so people could get close enough to hear him. It would probably be a sure bet that they knew he was the one that came out of the big fish due to all of the cats following him. My scenario, “You can preach to us Jonah but do you mind staying a little down wind, and we think we know why all of those cats are following you, and did that really happen to you?†Jonah 3:2-4 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. [3] So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. [4] And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. Have a great day and take a kid fishing, CDBJ |
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