CCEJonah03_back03_footnotes

¹⁴  In 2014 Mosul was occupied by the terrorist organization known as “Islamic State” aka “ISIS” or “ISIL.” It is interesting how this ancient city is at the forefront of twenty-first-century AD geopolitical and global affairs.

¹⁵  O. Palmer Robertson (Nahum, 55) comments, “Nahum is unique in that the entirety of his book is characterized as a vision revealed by God. This prophetic material is not presented as the product of an ecstatic dervish whose mind swirled with frenzied irrationalities. His vision could be laid out as an objective, rational piece of literature with a unified theme embodying elaborate poetic structures.”

¹⁶  There are several additional short oracles scattered throughout the prophetic literature.

¹⁷  By 586 BC the Babylonians would invade Judah and destroy Jerusalem.

¹⁸  These four phrases consist of one infinitive and three imperative forms.

¹⁹  Cush is mentioned elsewhere in the biblical prophets, such as Jer 46:9; Ezek 27:10; 30:5; 38:5.

²⁰  Not to be confused with modern Ethiopia.

²¹  In the genealogical sections of Gen 10:6 and 1 Chr 1:8, Put is named as one of four sons of Ham who was a son of Noah. In the prophetic literature Put is mentioned in Jer 46:9; Ezek 27:10; 30:5; 38:5; and Isa 66:9.

²²  For a detailed discussion of the history of the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire see Kaiser, A History of Israel, 367–87.

²³  J. J. M. Roberts (Nahum, 75) states, “One should note that the imperatives in v. 14 are all feminine singulars, not the masculine forms found in 2:2, where the Assyrian king is given a similar admonition to prepare for an attack.”

²⁴  The verb “saw” is found in Amos 1:1; Micah 1:1; in addition to Habakkuk 1:1. The noun translated “vision” is found in Obadiah 1:1 and Nahum 1:1.

²⁵  Cf. the description of David in 2 Sam 17:8.