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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Nahum</FONT></P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>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,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET</FONT></P>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HE</FONT>
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name of 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 people:</I>
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and even this prophet, though wholly taken up in foretelling the
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destruction of Nineveh, which speaks terror to the Assyrians, is, even
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in that, comforter to the ten tribes of Israel, who, it is probable,
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were now lately carried captives into Assyria. It is very uncertain at
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what time he lived and prophesied, but it is most probable that he
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lived in the time of Hezekiah, and prophesied against Nineveh, after
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the captivity of Israel by the king of Assyria, which was in the ninth
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year of Hezekiah, and before Sennacherib's invading Judah, which was in
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the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, for to that attempt, and the defeat of
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it, it is supposed, the first chapter has reference; and it is probable
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that it was delivered a little before it, for the encouragement of
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God's 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 this
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book were delivered by Nahum some years after, perhaps in the reign of
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Manasseh, and in that reign the Jewish chronologies generally place
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him, somewhat nearer to the time when Nineveh was conquered, and the
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Assyrian monarchy reduced, by Cyaxares and Nebuchadnezzar, some time
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before the first captivity of Judah. It is probable that Nahum did by
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word of mouth prophesy many things concerning Israel and Judah, as it
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is certain that Jonah did
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ki+14:25">2 Kings xiv. 25</A>),
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though we have nothing of either of them in writing, but what related
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to 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 had
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