Week 29 • Sovereign over the Nations  (Nahum 2)

Memory Verse: Proverbs 1:23

In each reading assignment look for a . . .

Sin to Confess • Promise to Claim • Attitude to Change • Command to Obey • Example to Follow

Psalm 18 Personal Study Notes:

Psalm 19 Personal Study Notes:

Psalm 20 Personal Study Notes:

Psalm 21 Personal Study Notes:

Nahum 2 Personal Study Notes:

Accountability Question

  • Did everyone read all five assignments?

  • What application points did you find?

Group Participation

  • Where are we on our ministry project?

  • Have someone take requests and lead prayer.

  • Have someone tell the story or paraphrase.

  • Have someone read the Bible passage.

  • Have someone facilitate the Bible study using the weekly discussion questions.

Weekly Discussion Questions  

Chapter 1 includes more or less general statements about the Lord’s judgment on His enemy, but now the book moves to more specific descriptions of the attack and plundering of the city. Nineveh would be attacked (2:1, 3–6), defeated (vv. 7–8), and plundered (vv. 9–13), but Judah’s glory will be restored (v. 2).

The Medes and Babylonians destroyed Nineveh in 612 b.c. 

  • The Assyrians committed many unspeakable atrocities to those it conquered. Records boast of live dismemberment, paraded heads, impalement to name some of the more tame atrocities. They had repented through the preaching of Jonah but now had fallen back into their old ways. What are some modern day nations that compare to Nineveh?

  • What does the Lord promise in 2:2? (Reference Gen 32:27-28)

  • How is the battle described in v 3-9?

  • How does Nahum 2 illustrate God’s sovereignty over nations? 

  • Read Is 45:1-5. What does this show us about the means God uses for His purposes?

  • How does Nahum 2 illustrate God's sovereignty over nations?

Prayer: Father, we praise you for your great power and your great wisdom as you exercise judgment and mercy over the nations.  May we humble ourselves before you and rejoice in our salvation.