The Strand Study Bible

NAHUM 1:11

NAHUM 3:3

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drunkards, 1 they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. P 11 There is 2 one come out of 3 thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the LORD: Though they be 4 quiet, and likewise many, 1 yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more. P 13 1 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. P 14 And the LORD hath given a com- mandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: 5 out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: 1 I will make thy 6 grave; for thou art vile. P HIStorical Note - Christianity continued with the promise of grace via the Gospel of CHRIST preached by Nahum - Rom 10:15 and I Pet 1:10 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth 7 GOOD TIDINGS , that publisheth peace! O Judah, 8 keep thy solemn 9 feasts, 10 perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; 1 he is utterly cut off. P Nahum 2 Babylon - God’s instrument against Assyria Date Written - c. 628 BC/AM 3372 1 11 He that dasheth in pieces 1 is come up before 3 thy face: 12 keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. P 2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the 3 emptiers have 13 emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 1 The shield of 11 his mighty men is made 14 red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. P 4 1 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. P

5 1 He shall 15 recount his 16 worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. P 6 1 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. P 7 1 And 17 Huzzab shall be led away captive, 18 she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. P 8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: 1 yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back. P 9 1 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none endof the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture. P 10 1 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. P 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. 13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD OF HOSTS , 1 and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy 19 messengers shall no more be heard. P Nahum 3 Woe to Nineveh! Date Written - c. 628 BC/AM 3372 1 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; P 2 1 The noise of awhip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. P 3 1 Thehorseman liftethupboth thebright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; theystumbleupontheircorpses: P

1. Fulfilled - 612 BC (Fall of Assyria) 2. or, “Sennacherib” - II Ki 18:13-37 Note - Sennacherib ruled Assyria from c. 705-681 BC. 3. or, “Assyria” 4. or, “at full strength; unified as an empire” 5. II Ki 19:37 Note - Sennacherib was slain in the house of his gods. 6. Ezk 32:22-23 7. or, “Good News; Gospel” Isa 40:9 & Rom 10:15-16/ Isa 52:7 & Eph 6:15 8. I Cor 5:8 9. Lev 23 10. Eccl 5:4-6 11. or, “the newly formed Babylonian empire under Cyaxares the Mede and Nabopolassar the Persian” 12. that is, “have your weapons ready because Babylon is coming” 13. that is, “emptied Northern Israel back in 721 BC” - II Ki 17:5-6 14. or, “bloody” 15. or, “remember” 16. or, “high ranking officers” 17. meaning, “it is decreed, established, and determined that Assyria will fall” 18. or, “Isthar” 19. or, “Assyrian officials” - II Ki 18:17-25 & 19:8-23

1:12 Judah was afflicted by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in 701 BC (II Ki 18:13-37). 1:15 The term “ good tidings ” has a twofold meaning: 1. It means the destruction of Nineveh (the enemy of God and His people) would be “good tidings” 2. It means the future destruction of Satan (the enemy of God and His people), via the “ GOOD TIDINGS ” of CHRIST (Mt 16:18), which would be “ good tidings. ” 2:6 By 612 BC, Babylon had breached the river gates that led into the city of Nineveh. This caused a sudden rise in the Tigris River, which washed away part of the walls. Then, the newly formed Babylonian empire walked into the city of Nineveh and destroyed it. So complete was Nineveh’s destruction at the hands of Babylon that her identity would remain hidden under rubble for 2,454 years (from 612 BC – AD 1842). 2:11 Lions were used as symbols throughout Assyria. However, this “lion” (Assyria) was about to be captured.