Nahum Chapter 2 Part 2

Na'hum. (consolation). Nahum, called "the Elkoshite," is the seventh, in order, of the Minor Prophets

The name refers back to Yahweh's compassion connected with Jonah's mission eighty-seven years before. The name Nahum is an abbreviated form of the name Nehemiah, which means “Comfort of Yahweh.”

Before I get into this study, I continue with our study on what the Capital Building is all about. Was the Capital design to be a Temple set up by the founders of the New World Order?  In this study, I give an insight of the artist of the Capital Dome, Constantino Brumidi

In our last study we begin in Chapter 2 with Yahweh’s Judgments being foretold. This week we will finish this Chapter 2

8 The prophet compares the past and present condition of Nineveh

is of old, &c. = Read "hath been from of old [filled with men] as a pool [is full] of water". Nahum said the troops defending Nineveh would be like a pool of water that drains away to no use

Like a pool of water = In the Scripture, water refers to a great multitude of people (Revelation 17:15) 

they: = i.e. the defenders

Stand, stand = They pay no attention

they: = i.e. the captains

9  Nahum calls on the invaders to come and gather the spoil of the city, which God gives into their hands

take the spoil. = Note the Figure of speech Epizeuxis “The Repetition of the Same Word in the Same Sense”, for emphasis.  Nineveh was going to be plundered by the enemy. All of her choice vessels were taken, and she was left empty handed

10  empty . . . void . . . waste. Note the Figure of speech Par-o-no-ma-si-a (The Repetition of Words similar in Sound, but not necessarily in Sense

Par-o-no-ma´-si-a, from παρά (para) beside, and ὄνομαζειν (onomazein) to name, make a name, or a word. The figure is so-called because one word is placed alongside of another, which sounds and seems like a repetition of it

The heart melteth = A common expression for fear and despondency 

Much pain is in all loins = The anguish as of childbirth

 In all lions = Loins are synonymous with power. Assyria is going to be shocked by the power of the enemy

11  In light of Yahweh’s enemies being described as lions, who will you turn to when Yahweh’s enemies are active?  Is there a Shepherd that can take on these lions?

Where . . . ? Figure of speech Er-o-te-sis (The Asking of Questions without waiting for the Answer

Er´-ô-tee´-sis. Greek, ἐρώτησις, interrogation (from ἐρωτᾶν, to ask, to enquire, to question: also to request).

This figure is used when a speaker or writer asks animated questions, but not to obtain information. Instead of making a plain and direct statement, he suddenly changes his style, and puts what he was about to say or could otherwise have said, into the form of a question, without waiting for an answer.), for emphasis. 

Where is the dwelling (den) of the lions? = The lion is a natural symbol of Assyria, both from that animal's cruel, predatory; ravenous habits, and from its use as the chief national emblem. Nergal, the war god, has a winged lion with a man's face as his emblem. 

lions. = Once again note the Figure of speech Syn-o-nym-ia (The Repetition of Words similar in Sense, but different in Sound and Origin

Syn-o-nym´-i-a, from σύν (sun), together with, and ὄνομα (onoma), a name. A Synonym is so Called when the sense of two or more words is similar, though the sound and appearance and derivation may be quite different. 

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