Nahum related passages

Within the Bible

• Previous: Micah foretold both judgment and the Ruler who brings peace; Nahum announces God’s judgment on the great oppressor and good news of peace.
• Next: Habakkuk wrestles with how a just God uses Babylon, the empire that would rise after Assyria’s fall.
• Thematic Connections:
  • Jonah - Nineveh’s earlier repentance and reprieve, over a century before Nahum’s prophecy of its final fall.
  • Isaiah 52:7; Romans 10:15 - The “beautiful feet” of the herald of good news and peace, fulfilled in gospel preaching.
  • Exodus 34:6-7 - The revelation of God’s character (slow to anger, yet not clearing the guilty) that Nahum draws upon.

Cross-Testament Connections

Nahum’s themes point forward to Christ:

• Good news of peace: The herald of the tyrant’s fall foreshadows the preachers of the gospel of Christ (Nahum 1:15; Romans 10:15).
• Justice and mercy meeting: God’s being both a stronghold and the judge who will not clear the guilty is resolved at the cross (Nahum 1:3, 7; Romans 3:26).
• God our refuge: The Lord who is “a stronghold in the day of trouble” is fully known in Christ, in whom His people are hidden and safe (Nahum 1:7; Colossians 3:3).
• The fall of every proud power: Nineveh’s certain doom prefigures Christ’s final judgment on all evil at His return (Nahum 3:19; Revelation 19:11-21).