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Nahum’s brutal portrayal of the destruction of Nineveh and the devastation of the Assyrians continues in Chapter 3. In verse 5, God promises to “pull up your skirts over your face and show the nations your nakedness, your shame.” Uncovering nakedness recounts a shameful episode early with King David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In II Samuel 10, King David sends emissaries to the king of Ammon to wish condolences on the death of the King’s father. The advisors of the Ammonite King misinterpret this diplomatic visit as an attempt to send spies. They convince the new King to humiliate the emissaries by cutting off their beards and cutting their garments in half to uncover their nakedness.\u00a0 David’s army, under the command of Joab, routs the Ammonite army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Later on, Ezekiel will also pick up on this theme of uncovering nakedness. In Ezekiel 16:37, the prophet describes a scene where God will gather together all the “people” with whom the Kingdom of Judah had been unfaithful. “I will assemble them against you from every quarter, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they shall see all your nakedness.” Later, these individuals will judge the people and “I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall tear down your eminence and level your mounds; and they shall strip you of your clothing and take away your dazzling jewels, leaving you naked and bare”(verse 39).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The humiliation of public nudity and exposure is one that is even spared the condemned man or woman. In Tractate Sanhedrin, chapter 6, mishnah 3, we learn about the procedure for death by stoning. Although the guilty party is stripped of their garments as they walk to the cliff, Rabbi Yehudah wished to still afford the guilty party public modesty by the directive to cover “a man in front and a woman both in front and behind.” (The sages decreed that a male is stoned naked, but a female is clothed). The Assyrians are afforded no niceties. They are exposed in front of all the nations of the world who then fling dung on them. “I will throw loathsome things over you And disfigure you And make a spectacle of you” (verse 6).<\/span><\/p>\n

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