Exiling the Exiler

by Lance Ponder⁽⁸⁵⁾
http://fkiprofessor.xanga.com

Nah 2:6-9 The river gates are opened; the palace melts away; its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts. Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back. Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. Nineveh was located near what is now Mosul, Iraq, on the banks of the Tigris River and one of its tributaries. Some believe the initial attack was so successful because the attackers built dams and manipulated the river in such a way that it washed out a portion of the city’s protective wall and allowed the Babylonians to flood in. Nineveh is personified as a female. The city is tripped, its survivors exiled, even the slaves suffer the dread of its destruction. 2:8 likens Nineveh to a pool of water. Water is often associated with people and power, but in this case the people and the power of the city are suddenly drained away. The guards who try to defend the city try to stop the cowards from running, but to no avail. The attackers get their fill of plunder, taking all the wealth stored up in Nineveh from the bloodthirsty Assyrians who plundered so many cultures up until that time. The moral of this story, aside from the immediate forewarning to Nineveh, is that accumulated wealth will not help you on the day the Lord comes for you.

Do you have anything worth plundering by an enemy? How will your enemy use that plunder against you?

Article submitted Monday, October 25, 2010 & read 13 times.

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