Survey of the book of Nahum

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Nahum’s Judgment on Nineveh After Jonah

Nihim, this is a book that actually some think is a sequel to Jonah because it proclaimed a judgment on the same nation as Jonah did on the nation of Nineveh. Now we look at this and it's kind of interesting because where Jonah, the result of Nineveh is that they repented and turned from their wicked ways, that's not the case with Nihim.

Nineveh’s Cruelty and the Coming Judgment

Now Nineveh was one of the cruelest cities in this book. We actually will see that it is described as a city of blood, Nihim 3 .1, a city noted for its cruelty in 3 .19. This was not a very nice place.

In fact, they were going to be judged for what they had done to many nations, including the northern tribes of Israel. What we end up seeing is that the southern tribes of Judah, they were feeling the pressure of the Assyrians weighing down on them.

God’s Sovereignty Over Assyria

And here comes God, through his prophet Nihim, prophesying of a judgment that was going to come on the great city of Nineveh. Why were they so great? Well, they felt comfortable in their sovereignty that they had a hundred foot high walls and a hundred fifty foot moats and that were sometimes sixty feet deep.

So they thought they were secure. The thing is, they are not secure from a sovereign God. And what they realized is a sovereign God who calls judgment upon them. They should have done like Nineveh did a hundred years prior at the preaching of Jonah and repented but instead they suffered the judgment of God and his sovereignty.

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