Author
– Nahum
Time – 620 B.C.
Summary
– The book of Nahum was written approximately 140 years
after the recorded events in the book of Jonah. During that
period of time, Nineveh had turned from its repentant attitude
and had taken the northern kingdom of Israel into captivity.
Whereas Jonah gives a message of mercy and repentance, Nahum
gives an indictment of doom upon Nineveh, the capital of Assyria.
They who were once used as God’s tool against the people of
Israel and Jerusalem, will now be destroyed because of their
great wickedness.
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Nineveh’s
doom declared – Chapter 1 v 1 to 15
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Passage
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Subject
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| 1
v 1 to 8 |
Character
of Nineveh’s judge |
| 1
v 9 to 11 |
Declaration
of Nineveh’s doom |
| 1
v 12 to 15 |
Comfort
to Nineveh’s oppressed |
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Nineveh’s
doom described – Chapter 2 v 1 to 13
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Passage
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Subject
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| 2
v 1 to 5 |
City
besieged |
| 2
v 6 to 10 |
City
overwhelmed |
| 2
v 11 to 13 |
City
made desolate |
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Nineveh’s
doom deserved – Chapter 3 v 1 to 19
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Passage
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Subject
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| 3
v 1 to 5 |
Cause
of the overthrow |
| 3
v 6 to 13 |
Lesson
of the overthrow |
| 3
v 14 to 19 |
Certainty
of the overthrow |
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