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 1 3,4 |    caused will be gained from Nahum’s fierce exultation over
 2 8,6 |     of the earth; for Put cf. Nahum 3:9.~ There follows the
 3 9   |                   Chapter 9. ~Nahum.  ~ ~
 4 9,1 |         The whole prophecy of Nahum revolves around the one
 5 9,1 |  tendency of moderns to place Nahum even nearer the fall of
 6 9,1 |         The very vividness of Nahum’s language and the splendour
 7 9,1 |      been finally vindicated. Nahum is so dominated by the sin
 8 9,2 |      Author. ~ All we know of Nahum is that he came from Elkosh (
 9 9,2 |    near the ruins of Nineveh. Nahum’s tomb is shown there, but
10 9,2 |       this tradition correct, Nahum will have been a descendant
11 9,2 |       who claimed that it was Nahum’s birthplace. We cannot
12 9,2 |   barely possible support for Nahum’s Galilean origin is found
13 9,2 |       name Capernaum = Kephar Nahum, i.e. Village of Nahum.
14 9,2 | Kephar Nahum, i.e. Village of Nahum. If this tradition is correct,
15 9,2 |    this tradition is correct, Nahum was the descendant of Israelites
16 9,2 |     evidence in their favour. Nahum’s concern is clearly with
17 9,3 |      details see HDB, article Nahum.). There are two diametrically
18 9,3 |    not doubt that they are by Nahum, in their present setting,
19 9,4 |    poems on the same subject. Nahum is not giving a vision of
20 10,2|   into the past” (Lanchester: Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah (