Nahum
Nahum was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Tanakh, the Old Testament. His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. Nahum's name means "comforter" or “Consolation” or “Consoler”, and he was from the town of Elkoshite, "God the ensnarer".[1]
There is a question as to the time and purpose of this writing. There are those who suggest that his writings are a prophecy written in about 615 BC or they may be an historical account written as a liturgy just after its downfall in 612 BC to remind people lest they forget. The form we now have may be both the result of the Prophecy and subsequent recorded final writing of an earlier prophecy.
He supposedly preached during the reign of King Manesseh, an evil kings in Judah’s long history. Not only did the king need to learn the lessons of being a good king and the people needed to repent of their idolatry in a nation that had completely turned its back on The Way of God. So, this would mean Nahum was written near the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag and conquering the northern kingdom of Israel and exercising their power over Judah in the south (2 Kings 17:1–6; 2 Kings 18:13 through 2 Kings 19:37).
A great deal of confusion has followed the interpretations of Nahum by men like Calvin. God has created a cause and effect universe and tyrants would have no power to wreak their havoc if the people had not already rejected the way of God and His righteousness as they had done in 1 Samuel 8. Charles L. Taylor, Jr. writes "it is one of the world’s classic rebukes of militarism…. All tyrants are doomed. They make enemies of those whom they attack and oppress; they become corrupt, dissolute, drunken, effeminate; they are lulled into false security… ". [2]
Summary of Nahum Chapter 2
Something has come that divides and scatters the people[3] which was seen in the story of Nimrod and Babylon.[4] We are warned to watch the way and strengthen our loins.[5] This is done by living by the ways of love, charity, and hope., not force, fear, and fealty under Assyrian contracts which ruins[6] and empties[7] the fruit of vine.[8]
They cast their wealth away[9] and the lion's prey on society.[10] And God will not hear them because they will not hear the cries of one another so that the "the sword shall devour thy young lions".[11]
Without Repentance and a return to a daily ministration of Pure Religion through charity and the perfect law of liberty the people will be devoured and ruined.
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Summary of Nahum Chapter 3
The whoredom with the strange woman was a form of whoredom that brings whips and chariots. The witchcraft was associated with what was called sorcery which was associated with the metaphor of something the deceptive and seductive that was in turn associated with of idolatry or in the New Testament Witchcraft.
God will expose the face behind the curtain/skirt "and I will shew the nations thy nakedness which is the lack of authority and the shame of their kingdoms. What was once great will be "laid waste" and will not find the "comforters".
Though she was strong "she went into captivity" and the swarms of office eat her up. "Thy shepherds slumber" because you whored after the king of Assyria. Thy people are scattered upon the mountains because they have forgotten the bands of liberty and desired the bands of bondage that come with the wages of unrighteousness.
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Preceded by: Micah - Followed by: Habakkuk
- ↑ 0512 אֶלְקשִׁי ‘Elqoshiy [el-ko-shee’] patrial from a name of uncertain derivation; adj pr gent; [BDB-49a] [{See TWOT on 90 }] AV-Elkoshite 1; 1 Elkoshite= "God the ensnarer"
- 1) a native and/or descendant of Elkosh (location unknown)
- ↑ Taylor, C. L.-I. (1956). The Interpreters' Bible (first ed., Vol. VI Lamentations through Malachi, p. 954). (S. T. George Arthur Buttrick, Ed.) Nashville: Abingdon Press.
- ↑ Genesis 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- 5 ¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad( נָפ֖וּץ NunPeiVavTzadik)from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
- ↑ Nineveh was the capital of Assyria which is associated with Babylon and the bondage of Egypt.
Ninus was in the Recognitions of Clementine's literature and was Nimrod, who taught the Persians to worship fire on their type of Altars of force. In the Hebrew text of Genesis 10, it is Nimrod who in the same Torah verse as naming Ashur or Asuras (Assyria).
05210 נִינְוֵה Niynëveh [nee-nev-ay’] of foreign origin, Greek 3535 Νινευι; n pr loc; [BDB-644a] [{See TWOT on 1326 @@ "1326a" }] AV-Nineveh 17; 17 Nineveh= "abode of Ninus"- 1) capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria; located on the east bank of the Tigris river, 550 miles (880 km) from its mouth and 250 miles (400 km) north of Babylon
- ↑ MemTavNunYodMem 04975 מֹתֶן mothen MemTavNun [mo’-then] from an unused root meaning to be slender; n m; [BDB-608a] [{See TWOT on 1267 @@ "1267a" }] AV-loins 42, side 4, greyhound 1; 47
- 1) loins, hips
- 1a) used with 02223 in #Pr 30:31; perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
- 1) loins, hips
- ↑ ShinChetTav is also translated ruined but here it is from ShinChetTavVav which only appears here in Nahum 2:2 and in Hosea 9:9. 07843 ^תחשׁ^ shachath \@shaw-khath’\@ a primitive root;ShinChetTav with the addition of other letters a word meaning will change v; {See TWOT on 2370} AV-destroy 96, corrupt 22, mar 7, destroyer 3, corrupters 2, waster 2, spoilers 2, battered 1, corruptly 1, misc 11; 147
- 1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay
- 1a) (Niphal) to be marred, be spoiled, be corrupted, be corrupt, be injured, be ruined, be rotted
- 1b) (Piel)
- 1b1) to spoil, ruin
- 1b2) to pervert, corrupt, deal corruptly (morally)
- 1c) (Hiphil)
- 1c1) to spoil, ruin, destroy
- 1c2) to pervert, corrupt (morally)
- 1c3) destroyer (participle)
- 1d) (Hophal) spoiled, ruined (participle)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- ח Chet The Life Force - Dynamic nature of - cause and effect - give life and live.[fence, thread, hedge, chamber...cycle] (Numeric value: 8)
- ת Tav is a Seal of a Higher kingdom or realm through faith. The paradigm keter–malchut “The Crown of Sovereignty” from the Tree of Life spiritually linking worlds or realms through an unseen doorway of faith. The Aleph & Tav are the first and last letters. [door sign cross seal] (Numeric value: 400)
- 1) to destroy, corrupt, go to ruin, decay
- ↑ Be itKufKufVavMem and BeitKufKufYodMem repeated in Nahum 2 01238 בָּקַק BeitKufKuf baqaq [baw-kah’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-132b] [{See TWOT on 273 }] AV-empty 5, make void 1, emptiers 1, fail 1, utterly (inf for emphasis; 9
- 1) to empty
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to empty, lay waste
- 1a2) to make void (fig.)
- 1b) (Niphal) to be emptied
- 1c) (Polel) to empty out, devastate
- 1a) (Qal)
- 2) to be profuse, abundant
- 2a) (Qal) luxuriant
- ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
- ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
- ק Kuf or Kof Omnipresence - Redemption of Fallen Sparks The paradoxical union Reish and a Zayin holiness or separateness omnipresence of God [Cord and needle 𐤒 ... back of head neck... the last or least] (Numeric value: 100)
- 1) to empty
- ↑ Proverbs 11:4 ¶ Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- ↑ Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
- ↑ Job 4:7-12... "Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad..."
- ↑ 1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Revelation 10:3 And cried with a loud voice, as [when] a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.