And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria. Here he passes suddenly to the north. Nineveh was destroyed by Cyaxares and Nabopolassar 625 BC The Scythian hordes, by an inroad into Media, and thence into the southwest of Asia (thought by many to be the forces described by Zephaniah as the invaders of Judea, rather than the Chaldeans), for awhile interrupted Cyaxares' operations; but he finally succeeded. Arbaces and Belesis previously subverted the Assyrian empire under Sardanapalus (i:e., Pul?) 877 BC
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Zephaniah 2:13
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.