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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:3-4 Spears of pine
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:3-4 Click to listen 3 The shields of his mighty men are dyed red;the warriors are clad in scarlet.The metal on the chariots flashesjust like the day they were made;the spears of pine are brandished. There is a question we need to answer right away as to who is meant when […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:2 The Lord will restore
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:2 Click to listen 2 The LORD will restore the majesty of Jacoblike the majesty of Israel,though destroyers have destroyed themand have ruined their vines. Some translations like the King James mistake “restore” for “turn away” in the first clause. This is the verb shuv in the first conjugation (the qal), […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:1 One who scatters is coming
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:1 In the second chapter, Nahum pictures Nineveh and the Assyrians as being under siege from an enemy. Even the voices and words of enemy soldiers are described as if they are picking through the ruins to plunder whatever they can. Then beginning with verse 11 the city’s destruction is compared […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:15 The Third Commandment
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:15 Click to listen 15 Look, there on the mountains,the feet of one who brings good news,who proclaims peace!Celebrate your festivals, O Judah, and fulfill your vows.For the wicked will invade you no more;they will be utterly cut off. In our printed Hebrew editions, and in the Greek translation, this verse […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:14 The First Commandment
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:14 Click to listen 14 The LORD has brought a charge against you:“You will have no descendants to bear your name.I will destroy the carved idolsand cast images in the temple of your gods.I will dig your grave, for you are cursed.” Here again we are reminded that the words of […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:12-13 Inspiration and the gospel
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:12-13 Click to listen 12 This is what the LORD says: This phrase, so common in the prophets (148 times in Jeremiah alone), only occurs this one time in Nahum. It is the prophet’s decree that his is an inspired text, the holy word of God. This is not the prophet’s […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:9-11 thorns and rascals
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:9-11 Click to listen 9 What can you plot against the LORD?He will make a complete end;trouble will not rise up a second time. The prophet asks, what can you possibly think you can accomplish by opposing God? What could you ever plot against the Lord? When the Pharisees and their […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:8 An utter end
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:8 Click to listen 8 But with an overwhelming floodhe will make an utter end of the place,and will drive his enemies into darkness. What was this “overwhelming flood”? If we were ignorant and completely in the dark about Nineveh’s fall, we might speculate the way historians often do about prophetic […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:7 The Gospel in Nahum
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:7 Click to listen 7 The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble.He cares for those who trust in him. Here the prophet truly proclaims the meaning of the First Commandment. First, what kind of God is it that we worship? We know his name: It is the LORD. […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:5-6 poured out like fire
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:5-6 Click to listen 5 The mountains quake before him. The hills melt.The earth heaves up before him,the world and all who dwell in it. The theme of the mountains quaking before God is taken up in the Song of Deborah: “The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai” […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:3-4 the tornado and the storm
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:3-4 Click to listen 3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power,and the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished.His way is in the tornado and the storm,and the clouds are the dust of his feet.4 He rebukes the sea and dries it up;he causes all […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 1:2 Vengeful
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 1:2 Click to listen 2 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God;the LORD is vengeful and furious;the LORD is vengeful on his foesand maintains wrath against his enemies. God’s attributes do not change, and for this we are grateful, because his love and forgiveness are among those attributes. How horrible […]
