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Intro Notes of Nahum
Sin city “Sin city, where crime calls home….the city where sin never sleeps” (3:1). That’s how Nahum described Nineveh, capital of the vicious Assyrian Empire, before predicting it’s going to get erased. Jonah came first A hundred years before Nahum, in the 700s BC, a reluctant prophet named Jonah delivered a similar message: “In 40 days Nineveh will be destroyed” (Jonah 1:4). Didn’t happen. The Assyrian king ordered the people to repent. Everyone fasted and dressed in mourning clothes made of scratchy feed sack fabric. “Humans and animals alike” (Jonah 3:8). That last line (try dressing a bull in a …