I will cast, by the Chaldean and Medish army, which God will stir up against the Assyrian monarchy, abominable filth upon thee; as is done to lewd women. Make thee vile: Nineveh had made herself morally evil and vile by sinning; now she shall be made penally rite. And will set thee, O Nineveh, as a gazingstock; at which they shall wonder and be astonished, some shall take warning too: so Sennacherib's tomb was a standing monument to put men in mind that God is to be feared, and that men looking on it may reflect on their insolence, and decline it. So Sennacherib's tomb-stone with his statue, of which Nahum 1:14.

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