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Nahum When God revealed to Nahum the coming doom of Assyria and Nineveh, Nahum relayed that message to his countrymen with a poetic skill that is unequaled among the Minor Prophets. His powers of description are so superb that readers of all ages have marveled at the forcefulness and accuracy of his words. Nahum’s good news of Nineveh’s fall has not only reverberated across the pages of time...

Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. 12:3; etc.), the predictions concerning Judah (Gen. 49:10–12), and the Davidic Covenant (2 Sam. 7; etc.). He then remarks, The deportation of the ten tribes (722 B.C.) had been an appalling calamity; but far more catastrophic would be the annihilation of Judah. Yet what God had just announced appeared to the prophet as the Supreme Judge’s death sentence upon Judah. In horrified shock he cries out, We shall not die! … That cannot be, O God! That would contradict Thine own
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