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Bible Study. Neal Parker. Nahum: Background Info. “Nahum” means comfort. Related to Nehemiah’s name; “The Lord Comforts” or “Comfort of the Lord”. Contemporaries: Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Jeremiah. Prophecy was written between 663 – 612 B.C. Jonah / Nahum Comparisons.

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  1. Bible Study Neal Parker

  2. Nahum: Background Info. • “Nahum” meanscomfort. • Related to Nehemiah’s name; “The Lord Comforts” or “Comfort of the Lord”. • Contemporaries: Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Jeremiah. • Prophecy was written between 663 – 612 B.C.

  3. Jonah / Nahum Comparisons

  4. Nineveh*Founded by Nimrod (Genesis 10:11)*14 miles X 20 miles (3 Days Walk Across Nineveh)*Destroyed by Babylonians with the flood of Khosr River (Nahum’s prophesy)

  5. Assyrians*Cruelty & Oppression*Stuck people on poles

  6. Assyrians*Cruelty & Oppression*Leading captives by lip-rings and blinding eyes

  7. Assyrians*Cruelty & Oppression*Cut off headsof captives

  8. Message of Nahum • Comfort is brought to Judah by the prophesy of Nineveh’s destruction. • Assyrians were powerful and ruthless, as well as successful. • In 722 BC, Assyrians had defeated Israel; Judah’s faith shaken. • Lesson of comfort for the Church, today. God is in control and will avenge.

  9. Bible Study – Book of Nahum Nahum 1:1-15 Verses The Lord: The Avenger & Protector 2-11 Prophesized End of Nineveh 12-15

  10. Bible Study – Book of Nahum Nahum 2:1-13 Verses Vision of the Fall of Nineveh 1-13

  11. Bible Study – Book of Nahum Nahum 3:1-19 Verses God’s Judgment on Nineveh 1-7 Finality of Nineveh’s Doom 8-19

  12. Message of Nahum • Comfort is brought to Judah by the prophesy of Nineveh’s destruction. • Assyrians were powerful and ruthless, as well as successful. • In 722 BC, Assyrians had defeated Israel; Judah’s faith shaken. • Lesson of comfort for the Church, today. God is in control and will avenge.

  13. Next Bible Study: September 1, 2012 Habakkuk

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