Nah 1:14 | TNotes | STEP | 1:14 no more children: Nineveh would be completely annihilated. Cutting off a person’s name and leaving him without a descendant meant utterly destroying him (1 Sam 24:21 ; Job 18:17 ; Isa 14:22 ). • None of Assyria’s venerated gods could deliver Nineveh from God’s death sentence. • God was already preparing a grave for Nineveh and directing Assyria’s enemies to destroy the city. Assyria’s proud cities fell one by one to the combined attacks of the Chaldeans, the Medes, and the Ummanmanda. Nineveh itself fell in 612 BC .

b1 Sam 24:21►

cJob 18:17►

dIsa 14:22►

‏ Nahum 1:14

1:14 ^a no more children: Nineveh would be completely annihilated. Cutting off a person’s name and leaving him without a descendant meant utterly destroying him (1 Sam 24:21 ^b; Job 18:17 ^c; Isa 14:22 ^d).

• None of Assyria’s venerated gods could deliver Nineveh from God’s death sentence.

• God was already preparing a grave for Nineveh and directing Assyria’s enemies to destroy the city. Assyria’s proud cities fell one by one to the combined attacks of the Chaldeans, the Medes, and the Ummanmanda. Nineveh itself fell in 612 BC.