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Nahum

A century after Jonah, Nineveh is still Nineveh — and Nahum's burden is the city's destruction. Three short chapters of breathtaking poetry on the fall of Assyria's capital.

  • 3Chapters
  • NinevehSubject
  • c. 612 BC fallHistorical fulfilment

“The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.”

Nahum 1:7
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Structure

  1. 1The LORD's character and Nineveh's fall announced‘The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble’ (1:7); yet a God of vengeance against his enemies (1:2).
  2. 2–3Nineveh's siege and destructionThe attack described in vivid battle-poetry; the woe over the ‘bloody city’; the finality of her fall.

Section pages

Each section is one focused part of Nahum — purpose, key movements, key verses, Christ-in-this-section. Roughly five minutes each.

  1. 01 · 1–3

    The burden of Nineveh

Themes

A stronghold in trouble: The book's anchor: the LORD's vengeance on Nineveh is his refuge for those who trust him (1:7).

Assyria's end: Nineveh fell to the Medes and Babylonians in 612 BC — history confirming Nahum's burden.

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Featured studies in this book

The gold numeral is how many passages of Nahum each study touches — the brighter the border, the deeper it reaches here.

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Where Nahum leads

582 cross-references flow out of its 3 heaviest chapters · 8 words are distinctively its own · 1 featured study cites it.

Counted live from the reference floor (heaviest chapter pairs · tagged word floor · featured-page citations).

Heaviest chapter

Nahum 1Sends 288 cross-references outward — the most connected chapter in the book.

Distinctive word

H3697 of its 789 occurrences in all of Scripture fall in this book (1%).

Featured study

The Armor of GodCites Nahum directly — one of 1 featured study that walk through this book.

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