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Nahum 3:1 [1] Large images like this one were not made of solid gold.
Nahum 3:1 [1] Large images like this one were not made of solid gold.
Nahum 3:2 [2] The title of an official or governor designated by the king to rule over one or more provinces in the Median and Persian Empires. The authority granted to a satrap would be similar to that granted to a vassal prince and required that he submit regular written reports to the king through one of his chief commissioners. The satrap did not have authority over military personnel stationed in his provinces.
Nahum 3:2 [2] The title of an official or governor designated by the king to rule over one or more provinces in the Median and Persian Empires. The authority granted to a satrap would be similar to that granted to a vassal prince and required that he submit regular written reports to the king through one of his chief commissioners. The satrap did not have authority over military personnel stationed in his provinces.
Nahum 3:19 [3] I.e. units of intensity.
Nahum 3:19 [3] I.e. units of intensity.
Nahum 3:25 [4] The KJV has "the Son of God" here, referring to the pre-incarnate Christ, because the usual term for God is Elohim, a plural form. Even if it was the pre-incarnate Christ, however, the pagan king would not have had Him in mind but a "son" of the Babylonian gods, perhaps a minor deity or an angel. The ancient rabbis of course would have fought any attempts by Christians to equate the fourth person in the furnace with the Son of God, so they portrayed God as turning Nebuchadnezzar over to Satan for punishment for the words he exclaimed here, as if he did in fact say "Son of God," and they made out v 28 to be a confession on the king's part that what he saw was after all just an angel.
Nahum 3:25 [4] The KJV has "the Son of God" here, referring to the pre-incarnate Christ, because the usual term for God is Elohim, a plural form. Even if it was the pre-incarnate Christ, however, the pagan king would not have had Him in mind but a "son" of the Babylonian gods, perhaps a minor deity or an angel. The ancient rabbis of course would have fought any attempts by Christians to equate the fourth person in the furnace with the Son of God, so they portrayed God as turning Nebuchadnezzar over to Satan for punishment for the words he exclaimed here, as if he did in fact say "Son of God," and they made out v 28 to be a confession on the king's part that what he saw was after all just an angel.
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