Nahum was the minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. His book comes inside chronological sequentially between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible. He wrote all about a prevent of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in the intense poetic style. Little is known astir Nahum’s personalized history. His title means "comforted." He was from either a town of Elkosh, the location of which is non known. the few accounts say that there was the city sustaining a title similar to this (Al Qosh) two years' travel in the north of Nineveh. He was a super nationalistic Hebrew, still, & joyfully proclaimed a kill of an empire that experienced terrorized the kingdom of Judah for about ii centuries & which experienced carried off a northern kingdom of Israel into captivity.

Historical context
Assyrithe for a super long instance were vicious lord of the Fertile Crescent. It were fierce fighters & were easily known for their barbaric acts which induced swell fear altogether the encompassing nations. Sole God himself experienced redeemed a city of Jerusalem from Sennacherib by intervening and stimulating the plague to strike down the Assyrian army that was laying military blockade to the city (701 BC). A northern kingdom of Israel had fallen to them around 722 BC. However at present Assyria’s sportsmen would become avenged when a kingdom of a Medes joined forces by owning the Babylonians to launch an assault on a huge fortified city of Nineveh upright fallowing the dying of Assurbanipal in 627 BC when Assyrithe was in a period of disorganization. Archaeologic digs use found a splendor of Nineveh around its hey-flower under Sennacherib (905-681 BC), Esarhaddon (681-669 BC), and Ashurbanipal (669-633 BC). Massive bulwarks were eight miles within circumference. It experienced the h2o aquaduct, palaces & a library by having 20,000 clay tablets, including the creation (Enuma Elish), and noachian deluge (Gilgamesh). A Babylonian history of a fall of Nineveh tells the story of the prevent of Nineveh. Naboplassar of Babylon joined forces by owning Cyaxares, king of the Medes, & placed military blockade for Deuce months & apparently were aided by the swollen flow of any stream which flowed through the city. Assyria lasted two or three further years when a loss of its fort, however tries by Egyptian Pharaoh Neco II to rally the Assyrians failed & it seemed to become over by 609 BC.

Theme
Nahum’s thought is passionately in favour of the destruction, even as Obadiah was in favor of the prevent of Edom for complicity in the fall of Jerusalem. Psalmists and prophets often demanded God’s judgement in their enemies. Nahum’s writing testifies to his belief in the righteousness of God. A Assyrians got been utilized when "God’s razor," however it got offended God & it was instance for their judgement.

The book
Chapter One: Two-9 occurs as hymn to a divine warrior, extolling a virtues of the Lord. Chapters 1:10-2:2 contain alternate oracles to Nineveh & Judah, sustaining condemnation existence declared to Nineveh & freedom of bondage to Judah. Chapters 2:3-3:19 describe a sack of Nineveh. A lion, a symbol of Assyrian power is mass produced information to. Nineveh is portrayed as a dishonored working girl & in comparison Thebes, the Egyptian city that Assyria itself got destroyed. Nahum describes a beleaguering & frenzied activity of Nineveh’s troops when it try vainly to prevent a encroacher. Poetically, he becomes the participant in the battle, & by owning subtle irony, barks battle commands to the defenders. Nahum utilizes many similes & metaphors. Nineveh is in comparison a lion’s den in which a lioness & young await the link to of the lion sustaining his stamp out. It comes to guide using the satiric warning in which Assyria’s rulers sleep & merchandiser flee.