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Introduction
Scripture
Outline
Nahum 1 - God’s Righteous Anger
Nahum 1:1 - Introduction
Nahum 1:2-8 - The Universal Judgment of Yahweh
Nahum 1:9-15 - The Four Announcements
Nahum 2:1-3:19 - Nineveh’s Fall
Nahum 2:1-13 - Nineveh’s Destruction
Nahum 2:1-2 - A Call to War
Nahum 2:3-10 - The Battle
Nahum 2:3 - Nearing Nineveh
Nahum 2:4 - The Enemy In the Suburbs
Nahum 2:5 - The Enemy at the Wall
Nahum 2:6-7 - The Temple is Overtaken
Nahum 2:9-10 - Nineveh is Destroyed
Nahum 2:11-13 - A Taunting Song
Purpose of Book
The purpose of Nahum is to reveal Yahweh as the great Divine Warrior who issues judgment against the Assyrians and rescues His people and the Messianic seed
Main Point
The fall of Nineveh is at hand.
Yahweh, the true God of gods, destroys Nineveh and ends the oppression of His people
Nahum 2:1-2 - A Call to War
1 The scatterer has come up against you.
The scatterer is both Medes-Babylon AND Yahweh - the word hints at a king who has victoriously won
The inhabitants of Nineveh will be scattered throughout the world if they are not killed or taken into exile
This will be done through the Median-Babylonian military
Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.
Nahum is writing as if he were at the battle in 612 BC
He calls them to get ready for their battle by looking for an advancing army and mustering all the strength they have
Watch, dress, collect are all commands, but given sarcastically because they do not stand a chance against Yahweh
2 For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.
For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel
God previously used the Assyrians for covenantal discipline on Judah
The reason for the Assyrian fall is that God is restoring Judah
Judah would once again retain her land AND be spiritually set free to worship Yahweh (salvation) as commanded per the Torah
For plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches
The Assyrians plundered the Judahites, but God would restore their majesty that was taken by force
Nahum 2:3-10 - The Battle
Nahum 2:3 - Nearing Nineveh
3 The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.
The shield of his mighty men is red
The well organized, powerful army of the Medes-Babylonians approach the city
His soldiers are clothed in scarlet
The Babylonians were known to wear red clothing in battle
The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.
The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them
The chariots advance towards Nineveh as they pierce through the Assyrian empire
The Lord is the one who has brought this terrifying army upon the Assyrians and on this day they shall come to an end
The cypress spears are brandished
Weapons were made from the cypress tree
God wanted to assure the Judahites that the Assyrians would not stand against this more powerful army
Nahum 2:4 - The Enemy in the Suburbs
4 The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.
The chariots race madly through the streets
The army is now moving from the suburbs of Nineveh towards the city itself!
Ironically, Sennacherib widened the streets of Nineveh for chariots to enter the city
Now the widened roads are used by the enemy for their fiery and quick destruction
They rush to and from through the squares
They gleam like torches
They dart like lightning
Nahum 2:5 - The Enemy at the Wall
5 He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.
He remembers his officers
The King calls out to his officials as the army sets up outside the city
They stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall
The Assyrian army is overwhelmed by the attacking force of the enemy as they try to defend the city walls
The fall of the city is foreshadowed
The siege tower is set up
The officers are too late to the wall
The siege covering is already in place and the pounding on the city wall rings
Nahum 2:6-7 - The Temple is Overtaken
6 The river gates are opened; the palace melts away; 7 its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
The river gates are opened
River here is plural
Tigris
Khosr
Tebiltu
The rivers that protected Nineveh became its downfall
The Assyrian army was known to flood their enemies and now their city ends in a similar manner
The palace melts away
The temple (palace) restored by Ashurbanipal full of their gods collapses
*It is set/settled/decreed*
The Lord God has decreed Nineveh’s end
Its mistress is stripped
Ishtar - Lady of Nineveh
She is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts
The Mede-Babylonian army would carry off the cult statute of Ishtar proving that she was powerless to defend her city with her mourning temple prostitutes following into exile
Again, YAHWEH is the true God who rules over all other gods
Nahum 2:8-10 - Nineveh Destroyed
8 Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away.
The Mede-Babylonian army is so overwhelming the Assyrian army runs away like a pool with cracks in the concrete
“Halt!
Halt!” they cry, but none turns back.
Halt! Halt! - Commands given for defenders to stand their ground and fight
Yet no one stays and fights - they all flee
9 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!
Plunder x2 is a command
Assyria was rich with wealth due to their conquests and treaties with inferior nations/nation-states
There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
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