| Jonah 3:3
| And Jonas arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.
| Journey. By the computation of some ancient historians, Ninive was about fifty miles round: so that to go through all the chief streets and public places, was three days' journey. (Challoner) --- Diodorus (III. 1.) says Ninive was 150 stadia or furlongs in length. It must have been therefore 480 round; and as each furlong contains 125 paces of 5 ft. each, the compass would be "60 Italian miles, (about 50 English)" which would employ a person three days to go through the principal streets. (Worthington) --- Ninive "was much larger that Babylon." (Strabo xvi.) --- Hebrew, "a great city of God," etc., denoting its stupendous size.
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