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NASB | Nahum 1:1 The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Nahum 1:1 The oracle (a burdensome message--a pronouncement from God) concerning Nineveh [the capital city of Assyria]. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh [which he saw in spirit and prophesied]. |
Bible Question: @hat is God trying to tell us in the book of Jonah? |
Bible Answer: The Book of Jonah is trying to tell us several things. First, a prophet doesn’t have to be anything but willing to do God’s will. Jonah was a melancholy personality that didn’t want the Assyrians [Iraq] to be saved. Jonah was looking forward to the destruction of Assyrians; this is true in Jonah’s first and last behaviors. God moved circumstances to get his servant to obey God’s will. God shows God’s “own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” Or in the case of the Assyrians, God saved them out of His goodness. While God changed his mind because of the revival with Jonah as the unwilling evangelist, Nahum is the newspaper 150 years later showing the utter destruction of Nineveh. |