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<h2><a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,'all');">Nah 2</a> - Nineveh Conquered</h2>
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<p><i>“This chapter is a masterpiece of ancient literature, unsurpassed for its graphic portrayal of a military assault.” (James Montgomery Boice)</i></p>
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<p>A. The battle of Nineveh.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,'1-2');">1-2</a>) A call to battle.</p>
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<p class="c2">He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen <i>your </i>flanks! Fortify <i>your </i>power mightily. For the <span class="c6">Lord</span> will restore the excellence of Jacob like the excellence of Israel, for the emptiers have emptied them out and ruined their vine branches.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">He who scatters</span></b>: In his vision (<a onclick="return mV('Nah',1,1);">Nah 1:1</a>), now the prophet sees a mighty army coming against the city of Nineveh.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">For the <span class="c6">Lord</span> will restore the excellence of Jacob</span></b>: In this case, part of God’s restoration for His people is connected to judgment and destruction on their enemies, those who <b><span class="c3">have emptied them out and ruined their vine branches</span></b>. They now will face destruction from <b><span class="c3">he who scatters</span></b>.</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,'3-7');">3-7</a>) The battle decided</p>
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<p class="c2">The shields of his mighty men <i>are </i>made red, the valiant men <i>are </i>in scarlet. The chariots <i>come </i>with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the spears are brandished. The chariots rage in the streets, they jostle one another in the broad roads; they seem like torches, they run like lightning. He remembers his nobles; they stumble in their walk; they make haste to her walls, and the defense is prepared. The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. It is decreed: she shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up; and her maidservants shall lead <i>her </i>as with the voice of doves, beating their breasts.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">The chariots come with flaming torches</span></b>: Nahum can see it all in his vision. The battle for Nineveh is fierce and bloody, and though <b><span class="c3">the defense is prepared</span></b> they will be conquered.</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">The chariots rage in the streets, they jostle one another in the broad roads; they seem like torches, they run like lightning</span></b>: Chuck Smith notes that some have taken this - erroneously - as a prophecy of the automobile and traffic congestion.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">She shall be led away captive</span></b>: The prophet not only sees the battle, he sees the outcome - Nineveh will fall before this mighty army, and she will be humbled and <b><span class="c3">led away captive</span></b> even as the Assyrians led other nations in captivity.</p>
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<p>B. Nineveh in defeat.</p>
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<p class="c1">1. (<a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,'8-12');">8-12</a>) Nineveh brought low and spoiled.</p>
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<p class="c2">Though Nineveh of old <i>was </i>like a pool of water, now they flee away. “Halt! Halt!” <i>they cry; </i>but no one turns back. Take spoil of silver! Take spoil of gold! <i>There is </i>no end of treasure, or wealth of every desirable prize. She is empty, desolate, and waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake; much pain <i>is </i>in every side, and all their faces are drained of color. Where <i>is </i>the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion walked, the lioness <i>and </i>lion’s cub, and no one made <i>them </i>afraid? The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, killed for his lionesses, filled his caves with prey, and his dens with flesh.</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Nineveh of old was like a pool of water</span></b>: Nahum says the troops defending Nineveh are like a pool of water that drains away to no use. They are useless in defending the city.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">Take spoil of silver! Take spoil of gold!</span></b> “An impressive confirmation of this prophecy is that nothing of all this gold and silver has been discovered in the ruins of Nineveh by archaeologists. Nineveh was indeed stripped bare.” (Boice)</p>
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<p class="c4">c. <b><span class="c3">Where is the dwelling of the lions</span></b>: The <b><span class="c3">lion</span></b> was one of the national emblems of the Assyrian Empire, and they crushed and plundered other nations like lions destroying prey. Now Nahum asks, “<b><span class="c3">Where is the dwelling of the lions</span></b>?” God has brought them low, who once were so mighty.</p>
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<p class="c1">2. (<a onclick="return mV('Nah',2,13);">13</a>) The <span class="c6">Lord</span> vows to conquer Nineveh.</p>
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<p class="c2">“Behold, I <i>am </i>against you,” says the <span class="c6">Lord</span> of hosts, “I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.”</p>
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<p class="c4">a. <b><span class="c3">Behold, I am against you</span></b>: What a terrible thing to hear from God! The principle of <a onclick="return mV('Rom',8,31);">Rom 8:31</a> is true for the believer:<i> If God is for us, who can be against us?</i> Accordingly, the opposite is also true - if God is <b><span class="c3">against you</span></b>, then who can be for you?</p>
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<p class="c5">i. <b><span class="c3">Says the <span class="c6">Lord</span> of hosts</span></b>: It is bad when God is against you; it is even worse when <b><span class="c3">the <span class="c6">Lord</span> of hosts</span></b> is against you. This title refers to God’s place as Commander in Chief over all the armies of heaven.</p>
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<p class="c4">b. <b><span class="c3">The voice of your messengers shall be heard no more</span></b>: Nineveh enjoyed its status as a power-center of the world, and relished the fact that the <b><span class="c3">voice</span></b> of her <b><span class="c3">messengers</span></b> commanded attention in palaces all over the world. That day would come to an end under the judgment of God.</p>
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