As they of Ninevéh shewed them selves prompt and ready to receive the word of God at Jonah’s preaching, and so turned to the Lord by repentance so after a certain time rather giving them selves to worldelie means to increase their dominion, then seeking to continue in the fear of God, and trade wherein they had begonne, they cast off the care of religion, and so returned to their vomite, and provoked God’s just judgement against them, in afflicting his people. Therefore their citie Ninevéh was destroyed, and Meróch-baladan King of Babél (or as some think Nebuchad-nezzár) enjoyed the empire of the Assyrians. But because God hath a continual care of his Church, he stirreth up his Prophet to comfort the godlie, shewing that the destruction of their enemies shulde be for their consolation. And as it semeth, he prophecied about the time of Hezekiáh, and not in the time of Manasséh his son, as the Jewes write.