What Is Assyrian in the Bible?
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From Assyria, a very powerful empire in the north of Mesopotamia, with its capital at Nineveh. It destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel.
Where it appears in the Bible
2 Kings 17:6; Jonah 1:2
What the Bible says
2 Kings 17:6
And in the ninth year of Osee, the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria: and he placed them in Hala and Habor by the river of Gozan, in the cities of the Medes.
Jonah 1:2
Arise, and go to Ninive the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: 2 Kings 17:6; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Assyria”