... kind that drive Yahweh to take action rather than sit back and do nothing (e.g., Isa. 9:7; 37:32; 42:13; cf. John 2:17). The further good news is that Yahweh is a God who takes redress (naqam). The NIV has avenging, which might be ... that the NIV added this word. The Heb. has “her/its place” (meqomah); the NIV presumably assumes “she/it” is Nineveh. Eaton (Obadiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, p. 60; cf. Lanner, “Who Will Lament Her?”) suggests it is Ishtar, Nineveh’s patron goddess whose ...
... He was a good husband, father, brother, friend, Pop-pop, even in-law (and, no doubt, I sometimes made that difficult). Fred Eaton served his country with distinction as a pilot during World War II flying over 100 missions both in Europe and the Pacific ... people to be denied, including one appearance to over 500 at once. And Jesus' promise has always been, "Because I live, you also will live" (John 14:19). "Let's be practical about this," he goes on. "If this life is all there is, it makes no sense for me to ...
A Plea and a Vision: Chapter 3 opens with a new heading that is even comparable to that of the book as a whole (1:1), and the chapter closes with its own concluding footnote (v. 19b). The heading designates it as a “prayer,” which takes the narrow form of a plea (v. 2) and of a declaration of trust in Yahweh (vv. 16–19). The main body of the chapter (vv. 3–15) comprises a description of Yahweh’s coming which is both an answer to the plea and the basis for the declaration of trust. While the book would not ...
