Nahum
Introduction
O.T. Timeline
Order of the books
Hosea to Malachi
Memory Verse: Nahum 1:7
The Old in the New:
Nahum 1:15 = Romans 10:15 (cf. Isaiah 52:7)
• Nahum’s Biography
• His name means “Comfort, Consolation”
• Family Information
From ELKOSH
• Nahum’s Audience
• His hearers = Nineveh, Assyria
S. Kingdom = Jerusalem
• His contemporaries =
after Micah and before Habakkuk
• Nahum’s Message
• DECLARATION of Judgment Chapter 1
• DESCRIPTION of Judgment Chapter 2
• DETAILS of Judgment Chapter 3
Next steps in our journey:
• Know and love God as He is – He is perfectly loving, just, and holy.
• Embrace the simplicity of John 3:36