Nahum

Nahum announces the downfall of Nineveh (Assyria), portraying God’s justice against cruelty and offering comfort to those crushed by violence.

Core Sentence · Nahum in One Line

Violent cruelty has an expiration date; God brings justice and relief.

Nahum ├─ God’s justice declared ├─ Nineveh besieged └─ cruel power falls

Emotionally: comfort through justice; relief through accountability.

Four Major Movements

How the book actually flows:

1. GOD’S CHARACTER (1): refuge + justice 2. SIEGE POETRY (2): Nineveh attacked 3. VERDICT (3): cruelty answered 4. FINALITY: (see timeline table)

This is the “museum walk path” you can follow as a clean narrative rail.

Four scenes that carry the book’s emotional and spiritual load-bearing moments.

Scene · Refuge and Wrath (Nah 1)

Slow to anger, not indifferent.

Patience └─ real Justice └─ sure

Comfort with gravity.

Scene · Predator Becomes Prey (Nah 2)

The lion den empties.

Nineveh └─ plundered

Reversal for the violent.

Scene · City of Blood (Nah 3)

Cruelty comes due.

Violence └─ exposed

Moral reckoning.

Scene · No Healing (Nah 3:19)

A hard end to oppression.

Wound └─ incurable

Finality in judgment poetry.

Rows follow story order (top = early, bottom = late). Columns track our six museum themes.

Story Order	Section Block	Fall	Promise	Faithfulness
1 · Nah 1	God’s Character & Comfort	wrath against evil		refuge for the oppressed
2 · Nah 2	Nineveh Besieged	empire shaken		justice advances
3 · Nah 3	Verdict on Violence	cruelty condemned	relief implied
4 · (Theme)	Oppression Has an Expiration Date		hope for victims
5 · (Theme)	Pride Humbled	arrogance judged
6 · (End)	Comfort Through Justice			God sees

Nahum is the museum’s ‘justice against cruelty’ tile: comfort for the oppressed through the downfall of violent power.

Nineveh Falls · Justice for Violence · Comfort for the Oppressed