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

That is why Jehovah is going to bring against them the raging and powerful floodwaters of the Euphrates River, that is, the king of Assyria with all his power. It will overflow all its channels and go over all its banks.

I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.

This is what the Lord Jehovah says: 'In my fury I will cause a storm to break out. In my anger rain will pour down, and hailstones will destroy the wall.

And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off (destroyed) (killed) and shall have nothing. The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be by the flood of war and desolations.

And his sons will be warlike and will assemble a multitude of great forces, which will come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they will return and fight, even to his fortress.

Will the land not tremble for this, and every one who dwells there mourn? I will rise up like the river. It will be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

For the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts. All who live there will mourn. It will rise up like the River Nile, and will subside again, like the River of Egypt.

The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

The place

The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looks back.

He will stretch out his hand (exercise his power) against the north, and destroy Assyria. He will make Nineveh a desolation. It will be barren like the desert wilderness.

General references

That is why everyone who devours you will be devoured, and all your enemies will be taken away as captives. Those who looted you will be looted. Those who stole from you in war will have things stolen from them.

Assyria is there with its whole army. The graves of its soldiers are all around it. All of its soldiers are dead. They have been killed in battle.

Bring my enemies that do not want me to rule over them and kill them in front of me.