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Nahum

Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew

An announcement of the fall of Nineveh, capital of Assyria, which had oppressed many peoples. YHWH is slow to anger, but will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

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How it is laid out

  1. Who YHWH ischapter 1
  2. The fall of Ninevehchapters 2–3

Key verses

  • Nahum 1:3 — YHWH is slow to anger and great in power
  • Nahum 1:7 — Good is YHWH, a stronghold in the day of distress

Who wrote it

The vision of Nahum the Elkoshite (1:1). The book gives no more details about him.

When it was written

Roughly between 663 BC, when No-amon (Thebes) fell, which the book treats as past (3:8-10), and 612 BC, when Nineveh fell.

For whom, and in what situation

For Judah, which had suffered under Assyria. It announces that the perverse one “will not again pass through” her and invites her to celebrate her festivals and fulfill her vows (1:15).

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