It is not often that I actually know something that your wonderful explanations and learned commentary extols but, I have a small correction.
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Originally Posted by Brother V
Nahum 1-3
Nahum 1
14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
Nineveh was founded as a place of worship of Ishtar. He was probably the graven image that Nahum was talking about.
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Ishtar was a false
goddess, her cult involved holy harlots and she herself opened up for any god that happened along. She was the daughter of Sin, another false god. And indeed she was particularly worshipped in Nineveh.
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5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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Many "scholars" claim that this verse is calling Nineveh a harlot (like Jerusalem), however, I believe it to be not descriptive of a woman, but of a man. This is a taunt. The verse before is about a harlot, but this is about a man. Nahum is saying that Nineveh has a small penis. It doesn't matter how big and strong it is, ultimately, it's less of a man because it has a tiny infantile penis.
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Again this seems unlikely, mainly because a gross male member is indicative of a base, coarse and animal nature, not at all refined as a True Christian™ is and we see this in
Eze:23:20: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.