Nahum 3:1-19 The years leading up to the 1956 uprising in Hungary were filled with terror for many. Some were taken off the street for questioning and torture, condemned in mock trials and sent off to a hard labour camp,…

Nahum 2:3-13 Reading today the chapter-long description of how Nineveh fell seems rather tedious. Why should we care about it? To give a modern parallel, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was, though peaceful, a likewise momentous event.…

Nahum 1:9-15; 2:1-2 The question of God’s judgment is often raised today. Shouldn’t God just forgive if He is the God of love? The discomfort with judgment has no doubt complex reasons, but modern secular society’s definition of love and…

Nahum 1:1-8 The little book of Nahum is not much read, I expect, even among Christians and little is known of the circumstances in which it arose (see footnote).[1] Its message of a ‘jealous and avenging God’ (Nahum 1:2) is…