The target of all three was Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, which did indeed fall not long after the prophecies, taking the empire down with it. Just before this verse, Nahum ...

It was also important to the Jews. “The burden of Nineveh,” reads the first sentence of the Book of Nahum. “The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.” The Book of Nahum, the seventh ...