Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today we finished our 23rd book of the Bible, The Minor Prophet Nehum. His words are directed

toward the city of Nineba, which is the capital city of Assyria. We've read a lot about

Assyria lately. Yesterday they planned an attack on Jerusalem after already attacking 46 other

cities in Judah, but were thwarted by the angel of the Lord. And before that, they attacked

and destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and took its people into exile. And we've

also read about Assyria's capital city Nineba before. It's the city God sent Jonah to

rebuke roughly a hundred years ago. At the time, they repented, although Jonah wasn't

too happy about it. But here we are a hundred years later and they've fallen back into their

wicked ways, as evidenced by their actions toward both kingdoms of God's people.

Nineba only explicitly mentions Nineba a few times in this book. He mostly uses general terminology,

which has an added benefit for this prophecy. It allows it to not only serve the immediate

purpose of warning Assyria, but also holds that second level meaning many prophecies do

of being able to apply to future scenarios too. Nineba message is that God will always judge

evil. There have been and will continue to be evil empires throughout time. And none of

them will outlive God and his judgment. Specifically here, God is judging Assyria for the way

they've treated his people. He starts out with a reminder of who he is in chapter 1 verses

2 through 3. And this passage sounds a lot like Exodus 34, 6 through 7, which has been

a common refrain throughout the Old Testament. In fact, we talked about it just four days

ago on day 2 12. It's where God tells Moses his name. I want to read the Exodus version

into you then I'll read the Nehum version. But first, I want to point out something I think

could help us understand this a little bit better. Do you ever read ingredient labels on

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