Understanding The Bible |
Dr. Clarence
E. Mason, Jr.
Philadelphia College of Bible
1970
OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETIC BOOKS
NAHUM: Expanded appendix
NAHUM ("Comforted")
(Dr. Boddis)
Nothing is known concerning Nahum except the reference to himself in the first verse of Ills prophecy. He was a native of Elkosh, a town whose location cannot be determined with any certainty. Some locate it in Assyria where the prophet's tomb is said to be. Others declare it to be a village in Galilee. Various dates have been given to this book. Some believe Nahum to be a contemporary with Habakkuk; others, that he prophesied during the reign of Manasseh; while many place his ministry during the reign of Hezekiah. This was from about 645-620 BC (Whitcomb). From internal evidence the best authorities place the date of the prophecy between the fall of Thebes (No-Amon of 3:8) in 663 BC and the capture of Nineveh by the Babylonians and Medes in 607 BC. Nahum's message concerns Nineveh exclusively. This would seem to link Nahum's ministry with that of Jonah, although Jonah's ministry took place more than 150 years before.
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