NAHUM OUTLINE

--A. Ralph Johnson

 

Theme: Doom of Nineveh and Assyria. 

Nahum the Elkoshite

Date, around 720-714 BC around the time of Isaiah (cf. 2Kings 19:4, 22-28; Isa 37)

CHAP

KEY WORDS

OUTLINE

1:

VENGEANCE

The burden of Nineveh (1)

Coming vengeance (2-8)

Sennacherib, Assyria’s commander to be defeated (9-12a)

Judah to have their yoke of bondage removed (12b-13)

Sennacherib’s end in the house of his gods (14)

Good tidings of peace for Judah (15)

2:

DASHED

Assault on Nineveh (1-7)

Flight from their enemies (8-13)

3:

WOE

Woe to the bloody city. (1-7)

You are no better than others who have been destroyed (8-10)

Resistance will utterly fail (11-19)_