Nahum 3:8

God shows partiality to no man and He is in total control. It is a sobering and frightening thought that He could be against us. 

In Him is peace and without Him there is none!

The people of the northern kingdom of Israel had been sinning grievously against God and ignoring the warnings of punishment given through God’s prophets. Finally God used the nation of Assyria, with its capital city in Nineveh, to destroy the nation and carry the people into captivity. A century after the fall of Samaria in 722 b.c., the Book of Nahum was written to express a major truth of the prophets. 

Even when God uses a nation for His own purposes of judgment, this does not excuse that nation from its own guilt before the Lord. It was Nineveh’s turn to feel the wrath of God. 

The last great emperor of Assyria was Ashurbanipal (669–627 b.c.). After his death, the nation did not last much longer, for the Lord was against it.

Nahum 3:8

⁸ Are you better than No Amon

That was situated by the River,

That had the waters around her,

Whose rampart was the sea,

Whose wall was the sea?

²Go over to Calneh and see; And from there go to Hamath the great; Then go down to Gath of the Philistines. ^hAre you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory? 

Amos 6:2

²⁵ The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No, ¹and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who trust in him. 

Jeremiah 46:25

¹⁴I will make Pathros desolate, Set fire to Zoan, And execute judgments in No. ¹⁵I will pour My fury on Sin, the strength of Egypt; I will cut off the multitude of No, ¹⁶And set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall have great pain, No shall be split open, And Noph shall be in distress daily. 

Ezekiel 30:14–16