Nahum
Old Testament · Minor Prophets · 3 chapters
A poem announcing the fall of Nineveh, showing that God holds violent empires to account and cares for the oppressed.
HopeJusticeProphecy
Context
- Genre
- Prophecy
- Authorship
- The prophet Nahum of Elkosh
- Date
- 7th century BCE
- Setting
- Nineveh
- Original language
- Hebrew
- In the original
- נָחַםnacham — to comfort
- Related texts
- Jonah 1–4 · another word about NinevehZephaniah 2 · words against Nineveh