Nahum

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Nahum

• Jonah c. 790-780 B.C.
• - Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
  overthrown! (Jonah 34b)
• Nahum c. 663-612 B.C.
• - Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of
  hosts. (Nahum 213a 35a)

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NahumTheme and Application

• Theme
• The fall and destruction of Nineveh
• General Application
• God will hold nations accountable for their
  wickedness
• Nah. 1 9, 12, 14 2 2, 7, 13 3 5-6

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Nahum The Burden Against Nineveh. (Nah. 11a)

• Assyrian History of Violence and Cruelty
• - Ruling power for 700 years
• - Cruelty recorded in kings inscriptions
• - space failed for corpses
• - choked rivers with dead bones
• - impaled heaps of men on stakes

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Nahum 12-7Gods Justice and Power

• v.2 The wicked will be punished.
• v.3a Dont mistake Gods patience for inability
• v.3b-5 Unlimited Extent of Gods power
• v.6 No one is capable of standing against God
• v.7 God is a stronghold to the good

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Nahum 17-15The Decree Against Nineveh

• v.8-11 Assyrias time of arrogance, evil
  plotting and dominance are resolutely over
• v.12-13 Judah will be free from Assyrian
  persecution
• v.14 Nineveh to be buried and forgotten
• v.15 Judah can rejoice, resume normalcy of life

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Nahum 21-7Ninevehs Destruction

• v.1-3 Nineveh and her attackers prepare for
  battle
• v.4-5 The attack and Ninevehs futile defense
• v.6-7 Ninevehs defeat and capture

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Nahum 28-13Aftermath of Defeat

• v.8-10a Nineveh, previously a gathering place
  and hub of commerce, is abandoned and plundered.
• v.10 The despair of the city
• v.11-12 Comparison to an earlier time in Nineveh
• v.13 Despair/Destruction at Gods decree

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Nahum 31-7Ninevehs Just Punishment

• v.1,4 A sinful, wicked city
• v.1a,2-3 Woe to the bloody city! Depiction of
  war and death in the city
• v.5-6 God will reveal the shame, filth,
  wickedness of the city
• v.7 No one will mourn Nineveh a testament to
  her wickedness!

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Nahum 38-13Suffer the Fate of No Amon

• v.8-9 No Amon (Thebes) was well fortified, had
  many allies
• v.10 No Amon destroyed and plundered in 663
  B.C. by Ashurbanipal, ruler of Assyria, in cruel
  and brutal fashion
• v.11-13 Ninevehs resistance will be likewise
  ineffective. She is ripe for the picking

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Nahum 314-19Nineveh's Fall Inevitable/Final

• v.14-15 The citys defenses will fail
• v.16-17 The citys financial and military assets
  will fail
• v.18 Ninevehs leaders will perish, her people
  will scatter
• v.19a There will be no recovery
• v.19b Widespread rejoicing at Ninevehs fall

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NahumTheme and Application

• Theme
• The fall and destruction of Nineveh
• General Application
• God will hold nations accountable for their
  wickedness
• Nah. 1 9, 12, 14 2 2, 7, 13 3 5-6

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