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James Tissot http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/nahum-painting-by-james-tissot-stock-graphic/91728025 My Mini-Bible Study for 2019 Read the Bible in a Year Come join us at any time!  Today’s Reading 8/22/2019     Day 234 Nahum 1:1 – 3:19 Reflection | Today - The book can be outlined as follows: 1.1 Superscription 1.2 - 8 God as a divine warrior 1.9 - 15 Announcement of punishment 2.1 - 13 The siege of Nineveh 3.1 - 19 Teasing of Nineveh and rulers  (NOAB 5 notes and me) Background |  Background by Center of Biblical Studies.   More background by My Jewish Learning. Book could be date after 612 bce. … Nahum would reveal not only God’s powerful hand in international affairs but also has a role Of prophets in preparing each generation for events to come. (NOAB5 notes) Nahum is three chapters and forty-eight verses long, making it one of the shortest books of the Old Testament. The...

Read |  Day 213 | Saturday | August 1  2   Kings 23: 1-20  2   Chronicles 34: 29-33  2   Kings 23: 21-28  2   Chronicles 35: 1-19  Nahum 1: 1, 2-15  Nahum 2: 1-13  Nahum 3: 1-19 Date: Nahum  ministry occurred some time before the fall of Judah - 612 BC. Background |  Nahum The prophet Nahum lived about this time. Nahum's prophecy centered upon the hostile city of  Nineveh , where cruelty and oppression reigned supreme. The prophet pictures with horror the chariots of the rich and the horsemen rushing through the streets of the city, leaving a trail of death behind them. Denouncing the tyranny and bloodshed so rampant in Nineveh, the prophet foretells its complete annihilation; "Woe to the bloody city! It is full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not. Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots; the horsemen charging, and the flashing sword, a...