Here’s how the study works: Read the chapters mentioned in the heading during the week and share any words, thoughts, verses that stood out to you. Having a week for several chapters creates the opportunity to revisit them and make additional comments as you feel inclined as well as make comments on other people’s insights.
Nahum 1-3
1:13 Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.
God will break and destroy those things which have afflicted his people and have been a bondage to them (v.12). There is a similar prophecy in Isaiah:
"In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck;
the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat" (Isaiah 10:27).
Bondages are broken when we grow spiritually fat.
1:13 Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.
God will break and destroy those things which have afflicted his people and have been a bondage to them (v.12). There is a similar prophecy in Isaiah:
"In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck;
the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat" (Isaiah 10:27).
Bondages are broken when we grow spiritually fat.
2:6 The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
The Ninevites thought they were safe because they were surrounded by water – rivers, moats, etc. but the river flooded following a storm and the walls were breached and the enemy entered. Likewise we can think we are safe but a storm can bring down our defences. Our only real security is God.
2:6 The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
The Ninevites thought they were safe because they were surrounded by water – rivers, moats, etc. but the river flooded following a storm and the walls were breached and the enemy entered. Likewise we can think we are safe but a storm can bring down our defences. Our only real security is God.
3:4 all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.
"the wanton lust of a prostitute" is a description of excessive greed always wanting more, never being satisfied. The flesh always wants more, it is never satisfied.
3:4 all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft.
"the wanton lust of a prostitute" is a description of excessive greed always wanting more, never being satisfied. The flesh always wants more, it is never satisfied.