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Nahum’s pronouncement on Nineveh shows the prophecy of the book of Jonah in a different light.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Go at once to Nineveh\u2026 for their wickedness has come before me\u2026 and proclaim to it\u2026 Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” God ordered. After running away, Jonah had unwillingly to obey. But after the residents of Nineveh turned “back from their evil ways. God renounced the punishment He had planned to bring upon them, and did not carry it out,” Jonah revealed his motivation for running away. Because God is “compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, renouncing punishment”, Jonah had a feeling that his prophecy that “Nineveh shall be overthrown!” wouldn’t come true.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Nahum’s pronouncement in our chapter, God is not only “Slow to anger and of great forbearance\u2026 The LORD is good to [those who hope in Him], A haven on a day of distress; He is mindful of those who seek refuge in Him” (3), but also “Vengeful and fierce in wrath\u2026 Who can stand before His wrath? Who can resist His fury? His anger pours out like fire, and rocks are shattered because of Him” (2).<\/span><\/p>\n

These two different descriptions of God may explain both Jonah’s harsh prophecy about “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” and its happy ending in which “God renounced the punishment He had planned to bring upon them, and did not carry it out.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Nahum analyzes these two different descriptions with remarkable insight and shows that there is no contradiction between them.<\/span><\/p>\n

God forgives when the malice is not constant, and when sinners really turn back from their evil ways. But when sinners, like the men of Nineveh, don\u2019t really repent their evil ways and continue their transgressing, then God “wreaks utter destruction: No adversary opposes Him twice!”<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore due to Nahum’s pronouncement, for Nineveh “there is no healing for your injury. Your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For who has not suffered from your constant malice?” (3, 19).<\/span><\/p>\n

Nineveh actually became a pile of rubble, as many archaeologists and historians can tell.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Prophet Jonah could hear Nahum’s pronouncement on Nineveh he would probably be pleased to find out that his prophecy that “Nineveh shall be overthrown!” finally came true.<\/span><\/p>\n

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