Know Your BIBLE by Paul Kent

Author:Paul Kent [Kent, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

NAHUM

“The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite” (1:1). Nahum either wrote the prophecies or dictated them to another.

Sometime between 663 and 612 BC.

Powerful, wicked Nineveh will fall before God’s judgment.

God: “slow to anger” but not at all pleased with the Ninevites Nahum: a prophet; his name means “comforter” but he has little comfort for Nineveh

“Woe to the bloody city!” Nahum cries (3:1). Nineveh, capital of the brutal Assyrian Empire, has been targeted for judgment by God Himself, who will “make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock” (3:6) for sins of idolatry and cruelty. Nahum’s prophecy comes true when the Babylonian Empire overruns Nineveh in 612 BC.

Nahum is from the city of Elkosh. (A modern settlement of the same name occupies the same site near the Israeli/Lebanon border.) He preaches against Nineveh, the ruins of which can be found near Mosul, Iraq.

• The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked. (1:3)

• The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. (1:7)

• What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. (1:9)

• And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown. (1:14)

• Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! (1:15)

• Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts. (2:13)

• Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery. (3:1)

• And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee? (3:7)

• There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? (3:19)

About a hundred years before, at Jonah’s preaching, the Ninevites repented, and were spared, yet, soon after, they became worse than ever. Nineveh knows not that God who contends with her, but is told what a God He is. It is good for all to mix faith with what is here said concerning Him, which speaks great terror to the wicked, and comfort to believers. Let each take his portion from it: let sinners read it and tremble; and let saints read it and triumph. The anger of the Lord is contrasted with His goodness to His people. Perhaps they are obscure and little regarded in the world, but the Lord knows them.

Matthew Henry

His name signifies “consolation”: and though the subject of his prophecy chiefly relates to the destruction of the Assyrian empire, and of Nineveh, the chief city of it; yet this was a comfort to the people of the Jews, that an enemy so powerful, and who was so troublesome to them, and whom they dreaded, should one day be destroyed.

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