Nahum

No. 316 Nahum 1:1-15
Nahum is a short book aimed at one target, the city of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, the empire that had terrorized the region and crushed Israel's northern kingdom. It opens with one of the most...
No. 1775 Nahum 3:8-13
Nahum warns Nineveh by pointing to another great city that had already fallen: Thebes, called No-Amon, set among the waters, defended by the river and the sea, backed by the strength of Cush and Egypt and...
No. 2813 Nahum 2:1-13
Nahum sees the fall of Nineveh, the capital of the brutal Assyrian empire, and paints it in racing images. The attacker comes up; chariots rage in the streets like torches and lightning; the river gates are...
No. 3616 Nahum 3:14-19
Nahum pictures the fall of Nineveh, the capital of cruel Assyria. Her defenses, her fortifications, her merchants and officials, will scatter and fail; her wound, he says, is incurable. And the passage ends...
No. 3620 Nahum 3:1-7
Nahum cries woe over Nineveh, the bloody city, full of lies and plunder, whose streets are heaped with the slain of her endless wars. And God declares, behold, I am against you. When a nation builds itself on...