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NahumNahumon finding the right refuge
The Fall of Nineveh by John Martin 1840
Noah’s great grandson Nimrodwas a mighty hunter
Nimrod by David Scott 1832
Noah’s great grandson Nimrodwas a mighty hunter
and Nimrod founded Nineveh
Many centuries later A long suffering God sent Jonah to Nineveh with one of the greatest revivals in history
with a wicked city turning to God
It didn’t lastA century later
an unrepentant Nineveh would face judgement again
British archeologist A. H. Layard excavated the site in 1845-1854. He unearthed the great palace of King Sargon along with a library of over 22,000 cuneiform documents. King Sargon was mentioned by Isaiah the prophet (Isa. 20:1). see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html
the walls stood 100 ft high and wide enough for 3 chariots
1:A pronouncement on Nineveh: The Book of the Prophecy of Nahum the Elkoshite.2:
The LORD is a passionate, avenging God; The LORD is vengeful and fierce in wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His enemies, He rages against His foes.
1:A pronouncement on Nineveh: The Book of the Prophecy of Nahum the Elkoshite.2:
The LORD is a passionate, avenging God; The LORD is vengeful and fierce in wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His enemies, He rages against His foes.
His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. Nahum 1:3b
Nahum 5: The mountains quake because of Him, And the hills melt. The earth heaves before Him, The world and all that dwell therein.7-8: The LORD is good to [those who hope in Him], A haven on a day of distress; He is mindful of those who seek refuge in Him. And with a sweeping flood He makes an end of her place, And chases His enemies into darkness.
Nahum 5: The mountains quake because of Him, And the hills melt. The earth heaves before Him, The world and all that dwell therein.7-8: The LORD is good to [those who hope in Him], A haven on a day of distress; He is mindful of those who seek refuge in Him. And with a sweeping flood He makes an end of her place, And chases His enemies into darkness.
Nahum 5: The mountains quake because of Him, And the hills melt. The earth heaves before Him, The world and all that dwell therein.
5: The mountains quake because of Him, And the hills melt. The earth heaves before Him, The world and all that dwell therein.7-8: The LORD is good to [those who hope in Him], A haven on a day of distress; He is mindful of those who seek refuge in Him. And with a sweeping flood He makes an end of her place, And chases His enemies into darkness.
7-8: The LORD is good to [those who hope in Him], A haven on a day of distress; He is mindful of those who seek refuge in Him. And with a sweeping flood He makes an end of her place, And chases His enemies into darkness.
Nahum Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
And a thought in Isaiah and Nahum reflected on in Romans
One punch and Nineveh will go down for the count
The prophet Nahum predicted the destruction of Nineveh in the book that bears his name. The following items were to be a part of the destruction of that great city: see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html 1 An "overflowing flood" would "make an utter end of its place" (Nah. 1:8) 2 Nineveh would be destroyed while her inhabitants were "drunken like
drunkards" (Nah. 1:10)
The rivers overflowedA section of a wall over 2 miles long fellThe father of Nebuchadnezzar goes in
with his army and Nabopolassar takes the city
Nabopolassar
There will be flood There will be fire There will be fear
The palace walls will fall
The armies of Nineveh fleeThe city did fall by flood
And what of the fire?
The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;Nahum 2:6
3 Nineveh would be unprotected because "fire shall devour the bars of your gates" (Nah. 3:13)
4 Nineveh would never recover, for their "injury has no healing" (Nah. 3:19) 5 The downfall of Nineveh would come with remarkable ease, like figs falling
when the tree is shaken (Nah. 3:12) see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html
The judgement will be final
The King had much of hisriches put in his palace
and burnt it so it could notbe taken
hence both flood and fire
In 612 B.C. Nabopolassar united the Babylonian army with an army of Medes and Scythians and led a campaign which captured the Assyrian citadels in the North. The Babylonian army laid siege to Nineveh, but the walls of the city were too strong for battering rams, so they decided to try and starve the people out. see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html
Nebuchadnezzar’s father attacks the city
A famous oracle had been given that "Nineveh should never be taken until the river became its enemy." After a three month siege, "rain fell in such abundance that the waters of the Tigris inundated part of the city and overturned one of its walls for a distance of twenty stades. see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html
Then the King, convinced that the oracle was accomplished and despairing of any means of escape, to avoid falling alive into the enemy's hands constructed in his palace an immense funeral pyre, placed on it his gold and silver and his royal robes, and then, shutting himself up with his wives and eunuchs in a chamber formed in the midst of the pile, disappeared in the flames. see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html
Nineveh opened its gates to the besiegers, but this tardy submission did not save the proud city. It was pillaged and burned, and then razed to the ground so completely as to evidence the implacable hatred enkindled in the minds of subject nations by the fierce and cruel Assyrian government." (Lenormant and E. Chevallier, The Rise and Fall of Assyria). see http://www.padfield.com/1996/nineveh.html
The whole book is a foretaste
• of the gospel of mercy• of the crisis of judgement
Through the whole account there is also mention of mercy
• Nahum’s name means comfort• The Lord is a safe refuge for those who fear Him
•Beautiful are the feet of those who announce good news
Nineveh will be like ripe figs on a tree falling into a mouth
Nahum 3
Jonah ends on a note of God showing mercy.
There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?Nahum 3:19
Nahum ends with judgement falling
Zephaniah adds a message of finality
And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.Zephaniah 2:13
It’s dry and it’s a dessertNineveh is near modern Mosul
even less stands today (post ISIS)
