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The sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later. God who is slow to anger and will not at all acquit the wicked, the siege of Nineveh in the…
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- Nahum, a person of Scripture.The Elkoshite (Nah 1:1), prophet of the burden of Nineveh — the sequel to Jonah: the city spared once, destroyed in 612 BC. His name means comfort. Hometown Elkosh disputed…
- Nahum, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Nahum: the Study Guide, a featured study.The sequel to Jonah: the city that repented is judged a century and a half later. God who is slow to anger and will not at all acquit the wicked, the siege of Nineveh in the most kinetic battle…
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2 results- PersonNahumThe Elkoshite (Nah 1:1), prophet of the burden of Nineveh — the sequel to Jonah: the city spared once, destroyed in 612 BC. His name means comfort. Hometown Elkosh disputed…
- PersonAshurbanipalAssyria's last great king, sacker of No-Amon (Thebes) in 663 BC — the precedent Nahum turns on Nineveh itself (Nah 3:8); likely the "great and noble Osnappar" of Ezra 4:10. His…
Places
4 results- PlaceElkoshThe hometown of the prophet Nahum, whose location is disputed among Galilean, Judean and Assyrian traditions.
- PlaceNinevehThe great city of Assyria that repented in sackcloth at Jonah’s preaching, that Sennacherib returned to after Jerusalem was spared, and that fell in 612 BC as Nahum had said.
- PlaceNo-Amon (Thebes)Thebes, the great southern capital of Egypt sacked by Ashurbanipal in 663 BC, which Nahum held up to Nineveh as the precedent for its own fall.
- PlaceAssyriaMesopotamian empire whose capital Nineveh repented at Jonah's preaching and fell to Nahum's burden in 612 BC; the rod of God's anger against the northern kingdom (722 BC).
Words (Strong's)
1 resultThemes
2 results- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
Topics
1 resultProphecies
2 results- ProphecyNineveh's Permanent DisappearanceNahum and Zephaniah predicted Nineveh's total disappearance—not merely defeat but permanent obliteration with no recovery.
- ProphecyNineveh's Destruction by Flood and FireNahum predicted Nineveh's destruction by a combination of flood and fire, with the river gates opened and the palace dissolved.
Apologetics
2 results- ApologeticsNineveh's Total Obliteration Prophesied by NahumNahum predicted the 'utter end' of Nineveh including its specific mode of destruction by flood—fulfilled so completely that its location was unknown for 2,400 years until…
- ApologeticsThe Fall of Nineveh: Nahum Against the Babylonian ChronicleNahum 1-3 foretells an overwhelming flood, fire, plunder, and erasure of Nineveh. The Babylonian Chronicle (BM 21901) and Greek histories trace the 612 BCE fall.