Nahum 3:1-19
Q.1. What would happen to Nineveh? What had the city been like? Why would her destruction not be reversed? – (Nah.3:1-19)
Assyria, with its capital, Nineveh was utterly corrupt. Nahum described it’s moral and spiritual decadence – All because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the charming one, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her harlotries and families by her sorceries (Nah.3:4). However, her fall would be God’s doing for – “Behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord of hosts; “And I will lift up your skirts over your face and show to the nations your nakedness and to the kingdoms your disgrace (Nah.3:5). As happened with the favoured city of Amon, Nineveh would be brought low. The surrounding nations could not save her. Her traders had stripped the nations like locusts and her wickedness had touched them all. Now she would rise no more. NOTE: God used the Babylonians and the Medes to bring down Assyria, just as she had done to other nations. They waged war against her and plundered all her wealth. The city of Nineveh was so completely destroyed, that no one identified its ruins until 1845 – more than 2,000 years later.