NAHUM THE PROPHECY OF. A

canonical book of the Old Testament. Nahum is the seventh of the twelve le er prophets; a native of Elkoshai, a little village of Galilee, the ruins of which were still to be seen in the time of St. Jerome. The particular circumstances of this prophet’s life are altogether unknown. Authors are divided as to the time when Nahum prophesied, some fixing it to the reign of Ahaz, others to that of Mana eh, and others to the times of the captivity. St. Jerome places it in the reign of Hezekiah, after the war of Sennacherib in Egypt, which the prophet speaks of as a thing pa ed. The subject of Nahum’s prophecy is the destruction of Nineveh, which he describes in the most lively and pathetic manner; and this prophecy was verified in the siege of that city by Astyages in the year of the world 3378, before Christ 622.