3 D's of Nahum SERIES:
Deserved
Nineveh's Doom Deserved--The Why
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts...Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
vs.4,11
A. Because of Her Brutal Conquests and Slave Trade (3:1-7)
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; ..The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. vs.1,2
Assyria's conquests were bloody and brutal.
B. The Example of Thebes (3:8-10)
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: vs.10
Nahum reminds them of their former conquest and destruction of Thebes or No-amon for two reasons.
--The first reason is to point out their cruelty and further justification for their coming judgment.
--The main reason is to point out that just as Thebes was unable to repel the attackers, Nineveh would be unable to repel their attackers.
C. The Inevitable Destruction (3:11-18)
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. vs.17
Like the locusts flee, the Assyrians fled when the attackers came through the walls.
D. The Response of the Nations (3:19)
There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: vs.19
Not only would they not be able to defend themselves, they could not depend on other nations for help, because every other nation hated them for their cruelty and would rejoice at their destruction.
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