Nahum 1:8

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Summary

Nahum 1:8

But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

With

The place

Nahum 1:1

Nahum 2:8

Zephaniah 2:13

General references

Jeremiah 30:16

Ezekiel 32:22

Luke 19:27

Bible References

With

And therefore, behold, the Lord brings on them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory. And he shall come up over all his channels and go over all his banks.

Also I will lay judgment to the line, and righteousness to the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even break it with a stormy wind in My fury. And there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and hailstones in fury to destroy it.

And after sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until the end shall be war.

But his sons shall be stirred up and shall gather a multitude of great forces. And one shall certainly come and overflow, and pass through. Then he shall return and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

Shall not the land tremble for this, and all who dwell in it mourn? And all of it shall rise up like the light. And it shall overflow and sink like the Nile of Egypt.

And the Lord Jehovah of Hosts is He who touches the land, and it shall melt, and all who dwell in it shall mourn. And all of it shall rise up like the Nile, and sink down like the Nile of Egypt.

And the rain came down, and the floods came, and the wind blew and beat on that house. And it fell, and great was its fall.

through which the world that then was, being flooded by water, perished.

The place

The burden against Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

But Nineveh is like a pool of water from her days; yet they are fleeing. Halt! Halt! they cry, but none looks back.

And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desert and dry like a desert.

General references

So all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all your enemies, every one of them, shall go into captivity. And they who rob you shall be robbed, and all who strip you I will strip.

Assyria is there and all her company. His graves are around him; all of them are slain, fallen by the sword;

But those who are my enemies, who did not desire that I should reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.