Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one is about Nahum.

If you just pick up a Bible and start reading straight through it, you will get a whole

lot of Nineveh in the book of Jonah, which describes events that happened in the mid-ish

700s BC in, well, at least part of it happens in Assyria, this great evil nation to the

north that oppresses people and everybody around Assyria hates Assyria and cannot wait

for Assyria to go away.

And as you'll recall with Jonah, he doesn't even want to go preach there because he's deep

down suspicious that God is going to relent and that he is going to forgive the people

if they repent.

And so he's bossy and he goes and he phones it in and does a terrible job, a tank job on

his preaching.

But for some weird reason, the king of Nineveh relents and everybody asks for God's forgiveness,

and sure enough, God's like, okay, I'm going to spare all those people, that's a lot of

people.

Well, then a few more prophetic books go by.

And the next time we get a really good look at Nineveh is in the prophetic book that we're

looking at today, which is Nehum.

This book is written about a hundred years later and kind of a lot's happened since

we last saw Nineveh.

For example, one of the two most notable things that has happened in Nineveh in the interim

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