Nahum 1:2
The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.
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1The word about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Cross References
Exodus 34:7Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
Leviticus 26:28Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.
Deuteronomy 4:24For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.
Deuteronomy 32:34Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?
Deuteronomy 32:41If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
Job 20:23God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:2
Nahum The name of this prophet signifies a comforter; for it was a charge given to all the prophets, Comfort you, comfort you, my people: and even this prophet, though wholly taken up in foretelling the destruction of Nineveh, which speaks terror to the Assyrians, is, even in that, comforter to the ten tribes of Israel, who, it is probable, were now lately carried captives into Assyria. It is very uncertain at what time he lived and prophesied, but it is most probable that he lived in the time of Hezekiah, and… Read the whole commentary →