“And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.”
The LORD has commanded concerning Nineveh: no more of your name shall be sown; I will cut off the carved image and the cast image; I will make your grave, for you are vile—a pronouncement of utter annihilation including desecration of idols. This verse assures complete erasure: not only military defeat but cultural and religious obliteration, including destruction of the false gods Nineveh served. The vow to make Nineveh's grave emphasizes finality and the reversal of all that the city represented.
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