Nahum 1:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THE BURDEN or oracle (the thing to be lifted up) concerning Nineveh [the capital of Assyria]. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Common English Bible

¹ An oracle about Nineveh: the scroll containing the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elcesite.

Nahum 1:1 Cross References

Genesis 10:11

From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah, and

2 Kings 19:36

Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!

Isaiah 13:1

The oracle concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 14:28

In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:

Isaiah 15:1

An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.

Isaiah 19:1

An oracle concerning Egypt. See, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

Isaiah 21:1

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the desert, from a terrible land.

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What has happened that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Isaiah 23:1

The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your fortress is destroyed. When they came in from Cyprus they learned of it.

Jeremiah 28:8

The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.

Jonah 1:2

“Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!”— but no one turns back.

Habakkuk 1:1

The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

Zechariah 9:1

An Oracle. The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus. For to the Lord belongs the capital of Aram, as do all the tribes of Israel;

Malachi 1:1

An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.