Nineeh] For seeing the great obstinacie of the Israelites, God sent his Prophet to the Gentiles, that they might provoke Israel to repentance; or at least make them inexcusable: for Nineveh was the chiefe citie of the Assyrians. great citie] Chap. 3. 3. For as Authours write, it contained in circuite about eight and forty miles; and had a thousand and five hundred towers; and at this time there were an hundred and twenty thousand children therein, Chap. 4. 11. See Genesis 10:11-12. Jonah 3:3. for their wickednesse] Genesis 18:20-21.