Nahum 1:2
God is a rival, and the Lord is avenging. The Lord is avenging, and one who applies wrath. The Lord is avenging with his enemies, and he becomes angry with his adversaries.
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In Context
1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Cross References
Exodus 34:7who preserves mercy a thousand fold, who takes away iniquity, and wickedness, and also sin; and with you no one, in and of himself, is innocent. You render the iniquity of the fathers to the sons, and also to their descendants to the third and fourth generation.”
Leviticus 26:28then I also will advance against you, with an opposing fury, and I will chastise you with seven plagues, because of your sins:
Deuteronomy 4:24For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 32:34‘Have not these things been stored up with me, and sealed up amid my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:41When I sharpen my sword like lightning, and my hand takes hold of judgment, then I will render vengeance to my enemies, and I will repay those who hate me.
Job 20:23May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.
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 →