²² Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?^(A)

1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.^(A)

The Consuming Wrath of God

¹³ The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.^(A)

²² Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their ancestors had done.^(A)

²⁵ The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.^(A)

⁹ You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me^(A)

²⁷ (for the inhabitants of the land, who were before you, committed all of these abominations, and the land became defiled);