Have you ever been ready for a fight and been disappointed when the other party relented? Nineveh was a massive city in the Babylonian Empire, renowned for its fishing as well as its brutality. While many city-states had their own Kings, Nineveh was part of an empire that had conquered the Israelites- Jonah’s people. Jonah reveals later that his “obedience” in going was with ill motives, for he wished to see Nineveh be destroyed, not restored.