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Verse Nahum 1:2. _GOD IS JEALOUS_] For his own glory.
_AND - REVENGETH_] His justice; by the destruction of his enemies.
_AND_ IS _FURIOUS_] So powerful in the manifestations of his
judgments, that...
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GOD IS JEALOUS AND THE LORD REVENGETH - Rather (as the English margin)
God “very jealous and avenging is the Lord.” The Name of God,
יהוה (_YHVH_), “He who Is,” the Unchangeable, is thrice
repeated, a...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
CHAPTER 1
The Purpose of God in Dealing with the Assyrian Oppressor
_ 1. The superscription (Nahum 1:1) _
2. Jehovah's majesty in judgment (Nahum 1:2)
3. His people comfo...
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THE AVENGING WRATH OF YAHWEH. Yahweh is a jealous and vengeful God
sensitive to the honour of Himself and His people who marcheth through
whirlwind and storm to save them from the enemy. Before His pr...
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_GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD -- NAHUM 1:1-2:_ God is pictured both as a
jealous God and as an avenger against wrong doers. "God is jealous,
and the Lord avenges; The Lord will take vengeance on His adversari...
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DISCOURSE: 1218
GOD A REVENGER OF SIN
Nahum 1:2; Nahum 1:6. _God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the
Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserv...
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GOD IS JEALOUS, &C.— This and the following verses, to the eighth,
are a preamble, like that of many others in the Prophets, to prepare
the mind of the reader, and to impress upon him sentiments of re...
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THE COMING OF THE LORD OF JUDGEMENT. Nahum 1:2-8
RV. Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah taketh vengeance on
his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. Jehovah is
slow to ange...
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God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is
furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he
reserveth wrath for his enemies.
JEALOUS. In this there is sternn...
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GOD'S VENGEANCE ON HIS PEOPLE'S ENEMIES. DELIVERANCE FOR JUDAH
1, 2. Superscription: 'Oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the
vision of prophesying of Nahum the Elkoshite.' A. theological
introduct...
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NAHUM, *PROPHET OF COMFORT
NAHUM
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
Comfort them; comfort my people, says the *LORD (Isaiah 40:1).
(‘Comfort’ means ‘stop them suffering and make them strong’.
‘*LORD’ is a speci...
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GOD... FURIOUS. — Better, _A jealous and vengeful God is Jehovah, an
avenger is Jehovah, aye, wrathful._ This verse lays the groundwork for
the declaration of God’s sentence against the offending city...
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(2-8) God’s character a pledge that the oppressor of His servants
shall be destroyed....
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אֵ֣ל קַנֹּ֤וא וְ נֹקֵם֙ יְהוָ֔ה
נֹקֵ֥ם יְהוָ֖
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THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD
Nahum 1:1
THE prophet Nahum, as we have seen, arose probably in Judah, if not
about the same time as Zephaniah and Jeremiah, then a few years later.
Whether he prophesied be...
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GOD'S GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUS ANGER
Nahum 1:1-15
The native city of Nahum was Elkosh, near the Lake of Galilee. The
name Capernaum means literally “the village of Nahum.” He lived
about 150 years afte...
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The prophet preceded the announcement of a verdict of vengeance by a
section dealing wholly with Jehovah Himself. As to His character, He
is a God of vengeance, and yet the central fact of His nature...
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God [is] (d) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and
(e) [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and
he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
(d) Meaning, of his...
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_The Lord. The six following verses (Haydock) tend to excite
attention. (Calmet)_...
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The Prophet opens his sermon with the most striking text, such as the
Lord himself opened his sermon with, when he preached before Moses.
See Exodus 34:1. It were to weaken the words of this solemn an...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
Singular was the reproach of the Jews in the time of our Lord (John
7:52); for there were prophets who had arisen out of Galilee. Jonah
and Nahum were both G...
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Nahum begins with the nature of God, that what he afterwards subjoins
respecting the destruction of Nineveh might be more weighty, and
produce a greater impression on the hearers. The preface is gener...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, AND 3.
If we were to examine closely the different characters of the nations
who have been connected with the people of God, we should perhaps find
in e...
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GOD [IS] JEALOUS, AND THE LORD REVENGETH,.... He is jealous of his own
honour and glory, and for his own worship and ordinances; and will not
give his glory to another, nor his praise to graven images...
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God [is] jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and [is]
furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he
reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.
Ver. 2. _God is jealous_] _S...
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_God is jealous_ For his own glory; _and the Lord revengeth _ Or
rather, _avengeth_, namely, the cause, or ill treatment, of his
people, as being the Supreme Governor, who, by office, is bound to
deli...
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God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, or, "A God jealous and taking
vengeance is Jehovah," as He had stated of old, Exodus 20:5. THE LORD
REVENGETH AND IS FURIOUS, literally, "An Avenger is Jehovah...
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THE DIVINE COUNSEL CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT UPON NINEVEH.
God, who is at the same time the God of the covenant and the almighty
Sovereign of the universe, states that He has fully decided to bring
abo...
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GOD IS JELOUS, AND THE LORD REVENGETH:
Or, the Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger, etc.
FURIOUS:
_ Heb._ that hath fury...
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1-8 About a hundred years before, at Jonah's preaching, the Ninevites
repented, and were spared, yet, soon after, they became worse than
ever. Nineveh knows not that God who contends with her, but is...
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OLBHeb;
GOD; the mighty God, so the French version, and the Hebrew la implieth
it. IS JEALOUS; his love is fervent for his people, his displeasure
hot against his and their enemies, whose idolatries h...
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Nahum 1:2 God H410 jealous H7072 LORD H3068 avenges H5358 (H8802) LORD
H3068 avenges H5358 (H8802) furious...
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THE MIGHT AND CHARACTER OF GOD (NAHUM 1:2).
The prophecy begins with an awesome and magnificent picture of the
might and character of God.
Nahum 1:2
‘YHWH is a jealous God and avenges. YHWH avenges...
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GOD IS JEALOUS
The great ethical lesson of Nahum is that the character of God makes
Him not only "slow to anger," and "a stronghold to them that trust
Him," but also one who "will not at all acquit t...
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Nahum 1:2
I. There are many terms applied to God in Scripture, which seem to
anthropomorphize His character: The "angry" God; the "repenting" God;
the "foreseeing" God. Now, whenever such terms are us...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's holiness and power. Nineveh's destruction
forecasted.
CHARACTERS: God, Nahum.
CONCLUSION: The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against His
enemies, and His favor and mercy ar...
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Nahum 1:1. _The burden of Nineveh Nahum the Elkoshite._ This refers to
a village of Galilee, the native place of Nahum, who in point of
talent was among the first of the Hebrew prophets. Yet nothing o...
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_God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth._
THE JEALOUS GOD
There is in man a selfishness that is Divine. It is a singular fact,
in our moral constitution, that often the tenderest feelings of our
natu...
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NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 1:2 A Psalm Descriptively Praising the Lord.
These verses praise God as he has been and will be throughout world
history. It presents God’s attitude toward, and action relating to,...
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EXPOSITION
NAHUM 1:1
Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON NINEVEH DECREED BY GOD.
NAHUM 1:1
§ 1. _The heading of the book. _The book has a double ti
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Tonight, let's turn now to the book of Nahum. Again, just three
Chapter s long and they're even short Chapter s. So, we should have a
relatively short Bible study tonight in Nahum.
He introduces the s...
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2 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 32:34; Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:41;...
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Jealous — For his own glory. Revengeth — As supreme governor, who
by office is bound to right the oppressed, and to punish the
oppressor....
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Does God get angry?
PROBLEM: Nahum declares that God “avenges and is furious.” Indeed,
God is often represented as being angry in the Bible (cf. Isaiah
26:20; Jeremiah 4:8). At the same time, the Bibl...