Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church Lay Academy
The Battering Ram is Mounted
Nahum
Peter Combes – September 22, 2002    Printable Version
(The answers to the following may be multiple, or "none of the above")

1.        The book of Nahum appears to have been written after:
                   the fall of Jerusalem
                   the fall of Samaria
                   the fall of Thebes
                   the fall of Nineveh

2.      Nahum denounces:
                   religious syncretism
                   incest
                   military power
                   unscrupulous commerce

3.        (advanced)  Verses 2-11 are an incomplete: 
                   sonnet
                   acrostic
                   limerick
                   haiku

4.         "Behold on the mountain -- " -- what?: 
                   angels
                   eagles
                   ibex
                   feet

5.         Nineveh would be attacked by soldiers wearing:
                   red
                   white
                   blue
                   green

6.       Nahum mentions the critical military weakness of Nineveh: 
                   the lack of a water supply
                   the dam above the city
                   the overhanging cliffs
                   the catacombs

7.        God will burn the:
                   statues
                   spears
                   chariots
                   altars

8.          Nineveh is compared to a harlot.  Other cities described like this include:
                   Rome
                   Babylon
                   Jerusalem
                   Bethlehem

9.        The princes of Nineveh are like:
                   lions
                   jackals
                   eagles
                   grasshoppers

10.       The image of the smashing of infants is also used by:
                   Isaiah
                   Jeremiah
                   Amos
                   the Psalmist