Nahum 1:2
The LORD is a jealous God and avengeth; the LORD avengeth and is full of wrath; the LORD taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Revised Version 1895
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 for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin: and that will by no means clear 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 in fury; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Deuteronomy 4:24For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 32:34Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
Deuteronomy 32:41If I whet my glittering sword, And mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
Job 20:23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
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 →