Nahum 1:2
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges; Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath; 1 Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he continues his anger for his enemies. 1
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1The declaration about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite. 1
Cross References
Exodus 34:7keeping covenant faithfulness for thousands of generations, forgiving iniquities, transgressions, and sins. But he will by no means clear the guilty. He will bring the punishment for the fathers' sin on their children and on their children's children, as far as the third and fourth generations.”
Leviticus 26:28then I will walk against you in anger, and I will punish you even seven more times as much for your sins.
Deuteronomy 4:24For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 32:34Is not this plan secretly kept by me, 1 sealed up among my treasures? 1
Deuteronomy 32:41When I sharpen my glittering sword, 1 and when my hand begins to bring justice, 1 I will render vengeance on my enemies, 1 and I will pay back those who hate me. 1
Job 20:23When he is about to fill his stomach, God will throw the fierceness of his wrath on him; 1 God will rain it down on him while he is eating. 1
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 →