Nahum

The Fall of Nineveh

An enemy army storms Nineveh's walls, breaches her defenses, and reduces the once-mighty city to chaos, exile, and plunder.

5 parts

Nineveh's Total Destruction

Nineveh's fearsome power crumbles as Yahweh turns against the predator city, whose armies flee, officials vanish, and streets are left empty and waste.

3 parts

Nineveh's Final Destruction

Nahum closes his oracle against Nineveh with two final pronouncements: Assyria's shepherds and nobles have fallen into helpless sleep, leaving the people leaderless, and the wound Nineveh has suffered is mortal — there is no healing for it.

2 parts