Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter LastmanCredit: Wikipedia, Public Domain 154 | Do Assyrian Records Mention Jonah’s Visit to the City of Nineveh? FOLLOW OUR PODCAST ON (search opentheword): PODCAST NOTES: Jonah is best known for being swallowed by a large fish or whale for refusing to call Nineveh to repentance. But after being vomited up on a beach along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, Jonah headed inland to Nineveh where the whole city responded to Jonah’s call to repent. Some claim that there is no archaeological evidence that this event took place. But up until Nineveh’s discovery in the mid-1800s, the skeptics didn’t even believe the city existed even though it was mentioned nearly 20 times in the Bible. But Jonah’s account revealed some familiarity with Nineveh. Jonah 3:3 describes Nineveh as an “exceedingly great city”. It took Jonah three days to walk through the city while calling its citizens to repent. Writing on the discovery of Nineveh, archaeologist Sir Austen Layard states it was one of the ancient world’s largest cities …