The Pulpit Commentary on Nahum 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

A vision and a burden.

I. THE VISION OF NAHUM.

1. The person of the prophet.

II. THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH.

1. The city. Nineveh; in Assyrian Ninua, or Nina, equivalent to "Station," "Dwelling," if the word be of Semitic origin; equivalent to "Fish house" if derived from the Accadian (Delitzsch). A city remarkable for:

2. The burden. This, which refers to Nahum's oracle concerning Nineveh, appropriately describes:

LESSONS.

1. The argument from prophecy for the inspiration of the Scriptures.

2. The superiority of the Christian dispensation, whose messenger was not a prophet of Jehovah, but the Son of God (Hebrews 1:1).

3. The excellence of the gospel, which contains a burden, not of wrath, but of mercy.

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