Two of the Minor Prophets spoke exclusively to and about Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire:

• Jonah,  in about 770 b.c.
• ...delivered a message of mercy to the great city.
• Nahum, 120 years later (650 b.c.)
• ...spoke a message of doom to the city at the height of it's wickedness again.
• Two others had preaching influence, as well.
• Zepheniah,  a contemporary of Nahum,
• ...also predicted Nineveh's destruction.
• • In addition, Isaiah, who ministered midway between Jonah and Nahum, predicted the fall of the Assyrians (Isaiah 10).

• prolonging the day of grace, in the end sending punishment for sins.

• Little is known of Nahum, whose name means “comfort.”
• Born at Elkosh, a village of Palestine.

• Its troubles began with the Scythian invasion (626 b.c.).
• They were extremely cruel.
• Haley's Handbook - p. 251
• The people gloated that 'space failed for corpses of their enemies.'
• They made 'pyramids of human heads."
• Pillars were covered with the flayed skins of their rivals.
• "So great was the destruction of the city of the most ferocious, sensual, diabolically atrocious race of men that ever lived, that Alexander the Great marched by and did not know that a great city was under his feet."

• Throughout these three chapters, in language spoken partly  about  Nineveh and partly  to  Nineveh, the city's destruction is foretold in astonishing and graphic detail.
• God's “slow to anger” (1:3) may have been mentioned as a reminder of Jonah's visit to Nineveh years before.
• God's wrath (1:2–8), throughout the Bible, is the opposite of His mercy.
• The fall of “the bloody city” (3:1) would be news of immense joy to the world it had so pitilessly crushed. (3:7,17).
• The great number of protecting canals along the edges of the walls gave Nineveh an appearance “like a pool of water” (2:8).
• Zepheniah predicted the fall of Nineveh in these words: "And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.  And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work. This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!  every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand."  Zepheniah 2:13-15.

• 1:2
• 1:3
• 1:9
• 1:10
• 1:15

• 2:4
• 2:6
• 2:9
• 2:10

• 3:1-3
• 3:4-7
• 3:13
• 3:15
• 3:19

• God's grace & mercy to those who will hear, believe and trust!
• Other wise, the next round of judgment will be God's final judgment!
• Matthew 24:1-33 - prophecy of God's final judgment!
• Revelation 4-19 for even more detailed details!