Day 305 - Nahum 1

By: Norman W. Berry

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Nahum 1 • 1 min. read • grade level: 6

This book was written about 150 years after the book of Jonah.

Try to get the meaning of it. One view, we see that it is about the city of Nineveh — but the whole story is a type of what is going to happen to this same enemy in a still future day.

V.7 What a wonderful promise! May we lay hold of it.

V.15 We also find this verse in Isaiah 52:7,⁷How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! (Isaiah 52:7) speaking of the beautiful feet of the Lord.

Nahum means “the Lord’s affliction;” and in verse 9 we see that His “affliction shall not rise up the second time.” The Lord’s work on the cross was completed once and forever. Now connect this with Genesis 41:52⁵²And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction. (Genesis 41:52).

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