Nahum 1:12
But this is what Yahweh says about you Israeli people: “Although the people of Assyria have very many people and their army is very powerful, they will be destroyed and will disappear. I say to my people in Judah, ‘ have already punished you, but I will not punish you again.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
11In Nineveh city there was a man who advised people to do very wicked things to Yahweh.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:35That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had put up their tents, and killed 185,000 of their soldiers! When the rest of their soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere!
Isaiah 7:20At that time Yahweh will hire the king of Assyria to come with his army from east of the Euphrates River. They will get rid of everything in your land—the crops and the people. They will destroy everything thoroughly; it will be like [MET] a barber shaving not only a man’s hair but his beard and the hair on his legs.
Isaiah 10:32The soldiers of Assyria will stop at Nob city outside Jerusalem. They will shake their fists as they threaten the people on Zion Hill in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 17:14And, even though you people of Israel will be terrified, in the morning your enemies will all be gone/dead. That is what will happen to those who invade our land and then steal our possessions.
Isaiah 30:28His breath is like [SIM] a flood that covers his enemies up to their necks. He will separate [MET] the nations in order to destroy some of them; it is as though he will put hooks in their mouths and take them away.
Isaiah 37:36That night, an angel from Yahweh went out to where the army of Assyria had set up their tents and killed 185,000 of their soldiers. When the rest of the soldiers woke up the next morning, they saw that there were corpses everywhere.
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 →