Ancient City of Nineveh Builds Bible Credibility

 

The ancient peoples of the Middle city of Nineveh would one day become nothing more than a memory. It was an awesome city -- a 200 square mile metropolis surrounded by formidable walls that for 15 centuries made it impregnable.

But during the height of its power Zephaniah made a prophecy that it would become a desolate waste – on which nothing but droves of sheep would find pasturage.

This seemed a ridiculous prediction – even by Nineveh's enemies. None of them ever thought anybody would be able to breach the city's 100 foot stone walls which had 20 story towers in each of its corners so invading armies could be tracked by the city's defenders while they were still miles away.
And even when they did reach the city its defenders could easily drive t hem away by firing down on them from the towering walls and towers. But another prophet, Nahum, predicted that much of these walls would be destroyed by rising
flood waters.

And this is exactly happened 20 years later. A flood washed out large sections of the walls in 632 B.C.E. and Babylonian and Median soldiers raced through the washed out sections and razed the city – in fulfilment of Zephaniah's prophecy as well.

This destruction was so great that even its ruins disappeared over the centuries. Nobody knew exactly where the site of ancient Nineveh was until modern archaeologists discovered it buried under 40 feet of debris and earth – on top of which shepherds were grazing their sheep – in fulfilment of Zephaniah's prophecy.