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Nahum 1

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^{Nahum 1:1 [1]} Pharaoh Neco had killed Josiah king of Judah and installed Eliakim (Josiah's son) as a vassal ruler. Neco changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim and he ruled for eleven years (2CH 36:4, 5).

^{Nahum 1:1 [2]} Nebuchadnezzar II of the Chaldean Dynasty, more commonly known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great, ruled Babylon from 605-562 B.C. He conquered Jerusalem in 597 B.C.

^{Nahum 1:2 [3]} I.e. southern Babylonia.

^{Nahum 1:3 [4]} Or eunuchs, and so throughout.

^{Nahum 1:4 [5]} The Chaldeans dominated and ruled Babylonia from 625 B.C. until their empire fell in 539 B.C., but they were known as early as 1000 B.C. as an aggressive, tribal people in the southern region of Babylonia. They were highly skilled in both the science of astronomy and the pseudo-science of astrology. They kept meticulous records of celestial motion and correctly calculated the length of a year to within just a few minutes. Babylon, their capital city, was the center of trade and learning in the western part of Asia. The classical literature of the Chaldeans was written in cuneiform, but the common language, both written and spoken in Babylon, was Akkadian increasingly influenced by Aramaic.

^{Nahum 1:8 [6]} The first portions of the food and wine would have been presented to idols before being served at the table.

^{Nahum 1:15 [7]} Lit fat of flesh.

^{Nahum 1:21 [8]} Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, ruled from 559-529 B.C. He conquered the Median (549 B.C.), the Lydian (546 B.C.), and the Neo-Babylonian (539 B.C.) kingdoms and formed the greatest empire the world had ever known. He returned a remnant of the Jewish population from Babylon to Jerusalem along with an edict to rebuild the temple.

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