Nahum Chapter 3 Part 1

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

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 continue into the insight of the artist of the Capital Dome, Constantino Brumidi

Beginning with this Chapter 2 and in this Chapter 3 we now read of Nineveh’s destruction

2:1 - 3:19. DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH
  2:1-2. Yahweh’s. = challenge to fight.
  2:3-10. Judgment. = Invasion.
  2:11-13; 3:1-7. Causes. = Hostility.
  3:8-10. Examples. = Citation.
  3:11-13. Examples. = Application.
  3:14. Yahweh’s. = challenge to fight.
  3:15-17. Judgment. = Devastation.
  3:18-19. Causes. = Hostility

 We, as Christians realize that the world is filled with stories of dark heavy sins.  Be warned, this passage we will look at involves some dark and heavy sins.  And from this we know that Yahweh condemns them and He is one day going to have a day of reckoning for those who commit vile sins.

So what is the Purpose: We need to know three condemnations Yahweh bring against Nineveh and its result so that we desire to see Yahweh’s deliverance and also destruction of the wicked?

Be warned that Yahweh condemn Nineveh’s violation of the second table of the Ten Commandments (v.1)

Be warned that Yahweh condemn Nineveh’s militarism (v.2-3)

Be warned that Yahweh condemn Nineveh’s human trafficking (v.4)

We need to know that Yahweh’s punishment of Nineveh and its outcome (v.5-7)

1      Woe = Woe warns of something terrible that is about to happen

bloody city = city of great bloodshed

All of it is (built on) lies (deceit) = A government wanting to hide truth comes against those who try to expose their lies, corruption and deceit

Robbery =peh'-rek means to disassemble

departeth not = will not be lacking

2   The noise, &c. = Between verses: 1-2 supply the logical Ellipsis (Other words El-lip´-sis. This is the Greek word ἔλλειψις, a leaving in, from ἐν (en) in, and λείπειν (leipein) to leave

'The figure is so called, because some gap is left in the sentence, which means that a word or words are left out or omitted

3  The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear, .... = Or, "the flame of the sword and the glittering spear"; he rides with a drawn sword, 

bright = gleaming

glittering = flashing 

and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; = of dead men lying in the streets, pierced and slain with the bright sword and glittering spear of the Medes and Chaldeans

upon = over 

and there is none end of their corpses; the number of them could not be told; they lay so thick in all parts of the city, that there was no telling them 

They = i.e. the slayers. Hebrew text margin, with some codices, and four early printed editions, reads "so that they stumble", 

they stumble upon their corpses; = the Ninevites in fleeing, and endeavoring to make their escape, and the Medes and Chaldeans pursuing them

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