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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Nahum (Prophet living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
His short book is about one thing, the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. It had repented once under Jonah and gone back to its cruelty, and Nahum describes its end in vivid, almost gleeful detail as the price of what it did to the nations it conquered.
His short book is about one thing, the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. It had repented once under Jonah and gone back to its cruelty, and Nahum describes its end in vivid, almost gleeful detail as the price of what it did to the nations it conquered.
Nahum was a prophet whose short book announces the coming destruction of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital that had once repented under Jonah's preaching but had since returned to its cruelty, and Nahum describes Nineveh's fall in vivid, almost gleeful detail as deserved judgment for the empire's brutality toward the nations it conquered.
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- Nahum 1:1
