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Nahum Chapter 3

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In Nahum 3 God declares that He will destroy the proud city of Nineveh and its people, who have turned away from Him. The chapter also notes that the destruction is a warning, but the people of Nineveh can find hope through repentance and God’s mercy.

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(1) Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
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Isaiah 24:9Ezekiel 22:2Ezekiel 22:3Ezekiel 24:6Ezekiel 24:7Ezekiel 24:8Ezekiel 24:9Habakkuk 2:12Zephaniah 3:1Zephaniah 3:2Zephaniah 3:3Nahum 2:12

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Ezekiel 7:23Luke 6:25Judges 5:30Revelation 8:13

(2) The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
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Nahum 2:3Nahum 2:4Judges 5:22Job 39:22Job 39:23Job 39:24Job 39:25Isaiah 9:5Jeremiah 47:3

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II Kings 7:6Ezekiel 3:13Ezra 3:13Ezekiel 1:24Jeremiah 47:3Ezekiel 26:10

(3) The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
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Nahum 2:4Genesis 3:24Habakkuk 3:11Isaiah 37:36Ezekiel 31:3Ezekiel 31:4Ezekiel 31:5Ezekiel 31:6Ezekiel 31:7Ezekiel 31:8Ezekiel 31:9Ezekiel 31:10

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Ezekiel 32:25I Chronicles 11:11Jeremiah 25:33II Samuel 2:23Judges 7:12Revelation 13:18

(4) Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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Isaiah 23:15Isaiah 23:16Isaiah 23:17Isaiah 47:9Isaiah 47:12Isaiah 47:13Revelation 17:1Revelation 17:2Revelation 17:3Revelation 17:4Revelation 17:5Revelation 18:2

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II Kings 9:22Ezekiel 16:34Ezekiel 23:3Ezekiel 23:11Ezekiel 23:29Hosea 1:2

(5) Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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Nahum 2:13Ezekiel 23:25Isaiah 47:2Isaiah 47:3Jeremiah 13:22Jeremiah 13:26Ezekiel 16:37Ezekiel 23:29Micah 1:11Habakkuk 2:16

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Leviticus 18:7Leviticus 18:10Leviticus 20:17Ezekiel 16:37Zechariah 1:3Jeremiah 13:26

(6) And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
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Job 9:31Job 30:19Psalms 38:5Psalms 38:6Psalms 38:7Lamentations 3:16Malachi 2:2I Corinthians 4:13Nahum 1:14Job 30:8Malachi 2:9I Kings 9:7

(7) And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
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Numbers 16:34Jeremiah 51:9Revelation 18:10Nahum 2:9Nahum 2:10Jeremiah 51:41Jeremiah 51:42Jeremiah 51:43Revelation 18:16Revelation 18:17Revelation 18:18Revelation 18:19

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Isaiah 51:1Isaiah 15:1Ezekiel 6:6Nahum 2:8Zephaniah 2:3

(8) Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
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Ezekiel 31:2Ezekiel 31:3Amos 6:2Jeremiah 46:25Jeremiah 46:26Ezekiel 30:14Ezekiel 30:15Ezekiel 30:16Isaiah 19:5Isaiah 19:6Isaiah 19:7Isaiah 19:8

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Ezekiel 31:4I Kings 6:5Genesis 1:6Leviticus 11:9Leviticus 11:10Joshua 3:13

(9) Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
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Isaiah 20:5Jeremiah 46:9Genesis 10:6I Chronicles 1:8Ezekiel 27:10Ezekiel 30:5Ezekiel 38:5

(10) Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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Psalms 33:16Psalms 33:17Isaiah 20:4II Kings 8:12Psalms 137:8Isaiah 13:6Hosea 13:16Amos 1:13Lamentations 2:19Lamentations 4:1Joel 3:3Obadiah 1:11

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Jeremiah 51:22Mark 5:4Jeremiah 40:1Esther 2:6Ezekiel 16:53Deuteronomy 22:6

(11) Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
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Nahum 1:10Psalms 75:8Isaiah 29:9Isaiah 49:26Isaiah 63:6Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 25:17Jeremiah 25:18Jeremiah 25:19Jeremiah 25:20Jeremiah 25:21

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Zephaniah 2:3I Chronicles 16:11Psalms 105:4

(12) All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Habakkuk 1:10Revelation 6:13

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Isaiah 34:4Leviticus 23:40II Chronicles 2:8Psalms 105:33Amos 4:9Revelation 6:13

(13) Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
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Isaiah 19:16Jeremiah 50:37Jeremiah 51:30Nahum 2:6Psalms 107:16Isaiah 45:1Isaiah 45:2Psalms 147:13

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Revelation 21:13Isaiah 45:1Jeremiah 17:27Nehemiah 13:19

(14) Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
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II Chronicles 32:3II Chronicles 32:4II Chronicles 32:11Isaiah 22:9Isaiah 22:10Isaiah 22:11Isaiah 37:25Nahum 2:1Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 46:3Jeremiah 46:4Jeremiah 46:9

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Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4Exodus 6:1Numbers 6:3II Samuel 10:11II Samuel 22:18

(15) There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
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Nahum 3:13Nahum 2:13Zephaniah 2:13Joel 1:4Joel 2:25Exodus 10:13Exodus 10:14Exodus 10:15

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Joel 1:4

(16) Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
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Genesis 15:5Genesis 22:17Nehemiah 9:23Jeremiah 33:22

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Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31

(17) Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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Revelation 9:7

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Deuteronomy 1:15Ecclesiastes 1:5I Chronicles 28:1Exodus 33:7

(18) Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
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Nahum 2:6Exodus 15:16Psalms 76:5Psalms 76:6Isaiah 56:9Isaiah 56:10Jeremiah 51:39Jeremiah 51:57Jeremiah 50:18Ezekiel 31:3Ezekiel 31:4Ezekiel 31:5

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Ezekiel 34:2II Kings 17:4Joshua 11:21Zechariah 6:1

(19) There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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Jeremiah 30:13Jeremiah 30:14Jeremiah 30:15Jeremiah 46:11Ezekiel 30:21Ezekiel 30:22Micah 1:9Zephaniah 2:13Zephaniah 2:14Zephaniah 2:15Jeremiah 10:22Job 27:23

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Jeremiah 44:9I Samuel 9:4Jeremiah 30:12Judges 11:29II Samuel 15:23

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