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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:3-4 lightning and witchcraft
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:3-4 Click to listen 3 Horsemen charging, flashing swordsand spears like flashes of lightning!Many wounded, masses of dead,bodies without number,people stumbling over the corpses– In verse 3, the imagery continues of the middle of battle. Nahum describes weapons with the language of a storm. The flashing of the swords and the […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 3:1-2 lurching chariots
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 3:1-2 Click to listen 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies,full of plunder, never without victims! “Woe” is the theme for the chapter and therefore the rest of the book. This interjection is most commonly heard in Isaiah. It occurs 52 times in Scripture, mostly in Isaiah (twenty-two […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:13 the sword will devour
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:13 Click to listen 13 “See: I am against you,” declares the LORD of Armies.“I will burn up your chariots in smoke,and the sword will devour your young lions.I will cut off your prey from the earth.The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.” The story of the fall […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:11-12 Lions without prey or dens
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:11-12 Click to listen 11 Where now is the lions’ den,and the food for the young lions,where the lion and lioness have gone?There were the cubs, with nothing to fear.12 The lion killed enough for his cubsand strangled the prey for his mate,filling his caves with prey and his dens with […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:8-10 Empty even of emptiness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:8-10 Click to listen 8 Nineveh is like a pool of water from those days, draining away.“Wait, wait!” they cry, but no one turns back. Nahum continues as a kind of prophetic spectator of Nineveh’s downfall. Here the name Nineveh occurs for only the second time in the book. Translators often […]
God’s Word for You – Nahum 2:5-7 The mighty waters rise
GOD’S WORD FOR YOUNAHUM 2:5-7 Click to listen 5 He summons his picked troops,yet they stumble as they go.They hurry to the city wall;the defense is put in place.6 The gates of the rivers are openedand the palace collapses.7 She is stripped and carried away.Her slave girls moan like doves and beat upon their breasts. […]
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 […]
