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Nahum 1:2
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Exodus 20:5
Nahum 1:2
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Psalm 94:1
Nahum 1:3
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Exodus 34:6
Nahum 1:14
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LXX Nahum 1:14
Nahum 1:15
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Isaiah 52:7
Nahum 2:10
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Joel 2:6
Nahum 3:4
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Revelation 17:2
Nahum 3:4
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2 Kings 9:22
Nahum 3:5
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Jeremiah 13:26
Nahum 3:7
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Lamentations 2:13
Nahum 3:10
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Obadiah 1:11
Nahum 3:10
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Isaiah 13:16
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Summary
Date: 6th Century B.C.E.
The double title of the book of of Nahum points to its main characteristics. It is a written prophetic book associated with Nahum. It is also, in the main, a pronouncement against Nineveh. From the readers' viewpoint Nineveh was both a historical city, the capital of the Assyrian empire, and a symbol of a sinful, overbearing, exceedingly oppressive political structure which was totally destroyed and never rebuilt.
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