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Nahum 1:14
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses Nineveh directly, pronouncing judgment immediately after promising to break Judah’s yoke and just before announcing the arrival of peace.
The words — יִזָּרַע (yi.za.Ra') means it will be sown, and מִ/שִּמְ/ךָ֖ (mi./shim./Kha) translates to from/ name/ your, forming the literal phrase “not sown from your name again.”
The thread — The theme of erased lineage and destroyed idols appears in Psalms 109:13, which prays for a wicked man’s descendants to be cut off, and Micah 5:13, which promises the removal of carved images. Proverbs 10:7 contrasts this fate with the enduring memory of the righteous.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to acknowledge that divine judgment permanently terminates dynastic legacy and idolatrous worship, leaving only the contrast between the condemned and the delivered.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Cross-references
- Psalms 109:13 May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
- Micah 5:13 I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
- Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isaiah 46:1 Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- 2 Kings 19:37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
- Psalms 71:3 Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
- Ezekiel 32:22 Assyria is there with her whole company; her graves are all around her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.
- Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
- 1 Samuel 3:13 I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.