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Easton's Bible Dictionary
consolation, The seventh of the so-called minor prophets,
an Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his prophecies. He
was probably a native of Galilee, and after the deportation of the ten tribes
took up his residence in Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a
place on the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
comforter; penitent
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(consolation)
Nahum, called "the Elkoshite," is the seventh in order of the minor prophets.
His personal history is quite unknown. The site of Elkosh, his native place, is
disputed, some placing it in Galilee, others in Assyria. Those who maintain the
latter view assume that the prophets parents were carried into captivity by Tiglath-pileser
and that the prophet was born at the village of Alkush, on the east bank of the
Tigris, two miles north of Mosul. On the other hand, the imagery of his prophecy
is such lie would be natural to an inhabitant of Palestine, ( Nahum
1:4 ) to whom the rich pastures of Bashan the vineyards of Carmel and the
blossoms of Lebanon were emblems of all that was luxuriant and fertile. The language
employed in ch. ( Nahum
1:15 ; 2:2
) is appropriate to one who wrote for his countrymen in their native land. (McClintock
and Strong come to the conclusion that Nahum was a native of Galilee that at the
captivity of the ten tribes he escaped into Judah, and prophesied in the reign
of Hezekiah, 726-698.--ED.)
Prophecy of Nahum . --
The date of Nahum a prophecy can be determined with as little precision as his
birthplace. It is, however, certain that the prophecy was written before the final
downfall of Nineveh and its capture by the Medes and Chaldeans, cir. B.C. 625.
The allusions to the Assyrian power imply that it was still unbroken. ch. ( Nahum
1:12 ; 2:8
, 2:13
; 3:16
- 17
) It is most probable that Nahum flourished in the latter half of the return of
Hezekiah, and wrote his prophecy either in Jerusalem or its neighborhood. The
subject of the prophecy is, in accordance with the superscription, "the burden
of Nineveh," the destruction of which he predicts. As a poet Nahum occupies a
high place in the first rank of Hebrew literature. His style is clear and uninvolved,
though pregnant and forcible; his diction sonorous and rhythmical, the words re-echoing
to the sense. Comp. ( Nahum
2:4 ; 3:3
)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
na'-hum (Naoum; the King James Version Naum):
(1) SEE NAHUM,
THE BOOK OF
(2) An ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy, the 9th before Joseph, the husband
of Mary (Luke
3:25).
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