Reading for October 29th

Read Nahum 1.1-5 Title.
The location of the Judean town Elkosh is unknown.
In verses 2-8 God's terrifying power.
These verses make up an incomplete acrostic poem, in which each two-line verse unit
begins with the succeeding letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
In verse 2 the emphasis on the vengeance and wrath of God at the beginning of Nahum
is related to the book's central theme: God's judgment of Nineveh for its cruelties.
In verse 3 God often appears in the form of a thunderstorm (Ex 19.16-17; Ps 77.17-18).
In verse 4 the traditional enemy of the storm god in ancient Near Eastern mythology is the sea
(alias river), a tradition reflected at points in biblical thought (Ps 89.9-10; Hab 3.8, 15).
In verses 4-5 God's appearance shakes the world of nature (Am 1.2; Mic 1.3-4).
Bashan, the highlands east of the Jordan, Carmel, the mountain range touching
the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel, and Lebanon, the coastal range north of Israel,
were famous for their elevation and natural vegetation.
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