Nahum 1:14
This is what the Lord has ordered concerning you. You will have no descendants to carry on your name. I will destroy the gods in your temples, all the wooden and metal idols. I am digging your grave, for you are depraved.
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13Now I will break their yoke from your necks and tear away the chains which bind you.
Cross References
Exodus 12:12That very night I will go all through Egypt and kill every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring condemnation on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I will judge his family forever because of the sins he knows about, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not try and stop them.
2 Chronicles 32:21The Lord sent an angel who wiped out every warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he returned home in disgrace. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with their swords.
Psalms 109:13May his descendants die; may his family name be wiped out in the next generation.
Isaiah 14:20you will not be buried like those other kings because you destroyed your own land and killed your own people. The descendants of those who do evil will never survive.
Isaiah 33:13Those of you who are far away, recognize what I have accomplished; those of you who are nearby, recognize how powerful I am.”
Matthew Henry on Nahum 1:10-15
Destruction of the Assyrian Army; Overthrow of Sennacherib. ( b. c. 710.) 9 What do ye imagine against the Lord ? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the Lord , a wicked counsellor. 12 Thus saith the Lord ; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when… Read the whole commentary →