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dwelt at Nineveh - for about twenty years after his disaster, according to the inscriptions. The word, “dwelt,” is consistent with any indefinite length of time. “Nineveh,” so called from Ninus, that is, Nimrod, its founder; his name means “exceedingly impious rebel”; he subverted the existing patriarchal order of society, by setting up a system of chieftainship, founded on conquest; the hunting field was his training school for war; he was of the race of Ham, and transgressed the limits marked by God (Gen 10:8-11, Gen 10:25), encroaching on Shem’s portion; he abandoned Babel for a time, after the miraculous confusion of tongues and went and founded Nineveh; he was, after death, worshipped as Orion, the constellation (see on Job 9:9; see on Job 38:31).