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