Nahum
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Nahum for Skeptics

There's not much new in Nahum. God continues to behave in a way that would be unacceptable for any human. But God can get away with anything.

Here are a few highlights.

• God is jealous and gets furious. 1:2

• He makes the mountains quake and the hills melt. 1:5

• He doesn't just get even. He drowns his enemies. 1:8

• There is "much pain in all loins." 2:10

• God will "discover thy skirts upon thy face, ... show the nations thy nakedness" and "will cast abominable filth upon thee." 3:4

• "Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women." I guess this ("You're all just a bunch of women.") was the biggest insult God could think of at the moment. 3:13

• God says that "the fire shall devour thee, the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm." 3:15