Journal Through the Bible: Week 62 Monday

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Nahum chapter 3

God tells Nineveh why they, the conquerors would be conquered.

Does God issue any commands?

• No, it is too late. God's offer of grace to Nineveh has been withdrawn.

Does God make any promises?

• There would be many people killed.
• Many others would be enslaved.
• Unlike the small children of Nineveh that God, much to the dismay of Jonah, many of the small Ninevite children of Nahum's day would be slain.
• Their bruising would not be healed. The city would not survive.

Does this passage teach anything about Jesus?

• The Assyrian shepherds slumbered. The Shepherd of Israel lives forever.

Does this passage teach anything about yet-future events?

• The descriptions of destruction could be compared to descriptions of the battle of Armegeddan.