Here it signifies the declaration from God relative to the overthrow of Nineveh, and the commission of the prophet to deliver it. Of the city of Nineveh, and the greatness of it; see Gill on ; See Gill on ; Jonah was sent to this city to threaten it with ruin for its sins; at that time the king and all his people humbled themselves and repented, and the threatened destruction was averted; but they relapsing to their former iniquities, this prophet foretells what would be their certain fate; very rightly therefore the Targum, and some other Jewish writings m , observe, that Jonah prophesied against this city of old; and that Nahum prophesied after him a considerable time, perhaps at a hundred years distance. We are those ambassadors sent to prophesy to the heathen nations within and without as we saw in the Obadiah study and as also told in many other places in Scripture. This imagery of death suggests that Rossetti is not only referencing to the fact that this is a sculpture made of stone, but also the fact that these objects come from a forgotten land, a civilisation that is just as dead as the stone that helps it to be remembered. Here it signifies the declaration from God relative to the overthrow of Nineveh, and the commission of the prophet to deliver it. Nineveh knows not that God who contends with her, but is told what a God he is. It was then an antichrist, and a type of him yet to come.
Perhaps they are obscure and little regarded in the world, but the Lord knows them. To everyone else it simply is not given Mat 13:10-13. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh. She was no better than the Egyptian city, No-Amon Thebes , which was earlier destroyed by Assurbanipal, king of Assyria. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it. There is not much new to explore in this verse. We must of course just wait for it as the Lord is promising.
. Pro 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. The wrath of God is also brought against the nations of the world. Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. It is good for all to mix faith with what is here said concerning Him, which speaks great terror to the wicked, and comfort to believers. His position in the canon is seventh of the minor prophets in both the Hebrew and Greek arrangement. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. Rev 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. From their dead Past thou liv'st alone; And still thy shadow is thine own Even as of yore in Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. When the rock that is Christ fell upon me and then began to grind the old man within me to powder then I began to know the real Jesus Christ. Therefore their city Nineveh was destroyed, and Meroch-baladan, king of Babel or as some think, Nebuchadnezzar enjoyed the empire of the Assyrians. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh. Psa 69:9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Poem: The Burden of Nineveh by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
And now,—they and their gods and thou All relics here together—now Whose profit? This prophecy is called a burden; it was taken up by the prophet at the command of the Lord, and was carried or sent by him to Nineveh; and was a hard, heavy, grievous, and burdensome prophecy to that city, predicting its utter ruin and desolation; and which, as Josephus says, came to pass hundred fifteen years after this prophecy; and which event is placed by the learned Usher in the year of the world 3378 A. No shade that plague of darkness knew, No light, no shade, while older grew By ages the old earth and sea. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. Within thy shadow, haply, once Sennacherib has knelt, whose sons Smote him between the altar-stones: Or pale Semiramis her zones Of gold, her incense brought to thee, In love for grace, in war for aid:. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
For there is no remedy for apostasy but utter judgment, and a new beginning. The day that bore abroad To Rate this poem: 0. The day when he, Pride's lord and Man's, Showed all the kingdoms at a glance To Him before whose countenance The years recede, the years advance, And said, Fall down and worship me:— 'Mid all the pomp beneath that look, Then stirred there, haply, some rebuke, Where to the wind the Salt Pools shook, And in those tracts, of life forsook, That knew thee not, O Nineveh! Those heavy wings spread high, So sure of flight, which do not fly; That set gaze never on the sky; Those scriptured flanks it cannot see; Its crown, a brow-contracting load; Its planted feet which trust the sod:. Isa 41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. Brass represents the works of man, the flesh in Scripture. Gen 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, Gen 10:12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
It is the way of God; apostasy is punished by catastrophic destruction. Notes and Commentary on Nahum 20-2. The prophets were given to us to help us learn this patience and to take comfort in the Scriptures Rom 15:4 knowing the work they are accomplishing in us. In our Museum galleries To-day I lingered o'er the prize Dead Greece vouchsafes to living eyes,— Her Art for ever in fresh wise From hour to hour rejoicing me. Mat 21:28 But what think ye? Which happens via this wonderful process called judgment that begins at the house of God in this age 1 Pet 4:17, Psa 19:8-9. The booke of the vision of Nahum the Elkeshite.
