Handbook for Bible Students

Nahum

Key-word, “Full-end;” Key-verse, 1:8, 9.-This is the burden of Nineveh. Jonah’s warning, perhaps a century before, had led to repentance; but judgment, deferred, is not averted. God will no longer spare: the threat of “overthrow” now changes to that of the full-end, annihilation. In images, never surpassed in the words or thought of man, the doom of the vast capital is portrayed. [p. 80] HBS 41.1