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 Nahum. His words are directed

toward the city of Nineveh, 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 a serious capital city Nineveh 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. Naham only explicitly mentions Nineveh 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.

Nahum's 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

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