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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Nahum: Nahum Chapter 3

Cross-Reference Bible NotesR.A. TorreyTreasury of Scriptural Knowledge

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This is an excerpt from R.A. Torrey's *Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge* (c. 1880), a biblical cross-reference work in the Protestant scholarly tradition. The excerpt covers Nahum chapter 3, a prophetic oracle announcing the violent destruction of Nineveh, the ancient Assyrian capital. The work's format is almost entirely cross-referential: for each significant phrase in the Nahum text, Torrey lists parallel passages from across the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, occasionally adding brief Hebrew word notes (e.g., "city of bloods" for "bloody city") or short historical glosses drawn from classical sources like Diodorus and Herodotus. The underlying Nahum passage depicts Nineveh as a city of bloodshed, harlotry, and imperial violence destined for humiliating exposure and annihilation, with its rulers fleeing, its army dissolving like locusts, and onlookers applauding its fall. Torrey's distinctive contribution is linking Nineveh's fate typologically to Babylon in Revelation (especially Rev. 17–18) and to other fallen powers throughout scripture, framing the prophecy as part of a unified biblical pattern of divine judgment on corrupt empires. This text would interest readers doing serious Bible study on Nahum, seeking parallel passages, or researching how 19th-century evangelical scholarship interpreted Old Testament prophecy in light of the New Testament.

Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Nahum: Nahum Chapter 3

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