Places
Nineveh in Zephaniah 2
NIN-uh-vuh
This place shows up in Zephaniah 2:13: “He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Zephaniah 2:13
“He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.”
What kids can learn
When you hear nineveh in Zephaniah, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Zephaniah 2:13 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Zephaniah 2:13
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
HestretchouthisagainstthedestroyAssyria,andwillmakeNinevehadesolation,asdryasthewilderness.