Book Introduction
Nahum
Written by
The Author
— A prophet from Elkosh whose single-minded message was the coming destruction of
Attributed to the Elkoshite. Nothing else is known about him. The book is a masterpiece of Hebrew poetry — vivid, intense, and relentless.
660s–610s BC
The people of (prophecy directed against /)
To proclaim that God would destroy — the capital of the empire that had terrorized the ancient world
What's It About?
Where Jonah showed God's mercy toward , Nahum shows that mercy doesn't last forever when repentance doesn't stick. returned to brutality — conquering nations, flaying prisoners alive, and destroying the northern kingdom of Israel. Nahum announces that God is about to do to Nineveh what Nineveh did to everyone else. The city fell in 612 BC, exactly as prophesied.
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