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<div2 id="Nah.i" n="i" next="Nah.ii" prev="Nah" progress="88.87%" title="Introduction">
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<h2 id="Nah.i-p0.1">Nahum</h2>
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<hr/>
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<pb id="Nah.i-Page_1339" n="1339"/>
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<div class="Center" id="Nah.i-p0.3">
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<p id="Nah.i-p1" shownumber="no"><b>AN</b></p>
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<h3 id="Nah.i-p1.1">EXPOSITION,</h3>
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<h4 id="Nah.i-p1.2">W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E
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R V A T I O N S,</h4>
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<h5 id="Nah.i-p1.3">OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</h5>
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<h2 id="Nah.i-p1.4">N A H U M.</h2>
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<hr style="width:2in"/>
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</div>
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<p class="indent" id="Nah.i-p2" shownumber="no"><span class="smallcaps" id="Nah.i-p2.1">The</span> name of
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this prophet signifies a <i>comforter;</i> for it was a charge
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given to all the prophets, <i>Comfort you, comfort you, my
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people:</i> and even this prophet, though wholly taken up in
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foretelling the destruction of Nineveh, which speaks terror to the
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Assyrians, is, even in that, comforter to the ten tribes of Israel,
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who, it is probable, were now lately carried captives into Assyria.
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It is very uncertain at what time he lived and prophesied, but it
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is most probable that he lived in the time of Hezekiah, and
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prophesied against Nineveh, after the captivity of Israel by the
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king of Assyria, which was in the ninth year of Hezekiah, and
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before Sennacherib's invading Judah, which was in the fourteenth
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year of Hezekiah, for to that attempt, and the defeat of it, it is
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supposed, the first chapter has reference; and it is probable that
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it was delivered a little before it, for the encouragement of God's
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people in that day of treading down and perplexity. It is the
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conjecture of the learned Huetius that the two other chapters of
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this book were delivered by Nahum some years after, perhaps in the
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reign of Manasseh, and in that reign the Jewish chronologies
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generally place him, somewhat nearer to the time when Nineveh was
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conquered, and the Assyrian monarchy reduced, by Cyaxares and
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Nebuchadnezzar, some time before the first captivity of Judah. It
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is probable that Nahum did by word of mouth prophesy many things
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concerning Israel and Judah, as it is certain that Jonah did
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(<scripRef id="Nah.i-p2.2" osisRef="Bible:2Kgs.14.25" parsed="|2Kgs|14|25|0|0" passage="2Ki 14:25">2 Kings xiv. 25</scripRef>), though
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we have nothing of either of them in writing, but what related to
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Nineveh, of which though a great and ancient city, yet probably we
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should never have heard in sacred writ if the Israel of God had not
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had some concern in it.</p>
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</div2>
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