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11/10/2024 Nahum 2:2-13 The Sad End Of The Assyrians Intro: The Book of Nahum was written to between 663 and 612 B.C. Just at the time of and the end of the Assyria empire’s capture of the northern kingdom of Israel and the rise of Babylon who took the southern Kingdom of Judah captive in 597 BC. The Assyrian Empire was defeated in 609 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Nahum did not write this book as a warning or “call to repentance” for the people of Nineveh. God had already sent them the prophet Jonah 150 years earlier with His promise of what would happen if they continued in their evil ways. The people at that time had repented but now lived just as bad if not worse than they did before. Nahum was telling the people of Judah to not despair because God had pronounced judgment and the Assyrians would soon be getting just what they deserved. God is patient and slow to anger. He gives every country time to repent of sin and follow Him as Lord. But He is not mocked. Any time a country turns aw