Nahum 1:2
A jealous and avenging God is Jehovah: an avenger is Jehovah, and full of fury: Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Cross References
Exodus 34:7keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth [generation].
Leviticus 26:28then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins.
Deuteronomy 4:24For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 32:34Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:41If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
Job 20:23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
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 →