Nahum 1:1 - Homiletics

A vision and a burden.

I. THE VISION OF NAHUM .

1. The person of the prophet.

II. THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH .

1 . The city. Nineveh; in Assyrian Ninua, or Nina, equivalent to "Station," "Dwelling," if the word be of Semitic origin; equivalent to "Fish house" if derived from the Accadian (Delitzsch). A city remarkable for:

2 . The burden. This, which refers to Nahum's oracle concerning Nineveh, appropriately describes:

LESSONS .

1 . The argument from prophecy for the inspiration of the Scriptures.

2 . The superiority of the Christian dispensation, whose messenger was not a prophet of Jehovah, but the Son of God ( Hebrews 1:1 ).

3 . The excellence of the gospel, which contains a burden, not of wrath, but of mercy.