Nineveh's second notice — the city Jonah spared runs out of chances.
"The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of ______; and he knoweth them that trust in him."
Nahum is Jonah's sequel, a century and a half later: Nineveh repented under Jonah, drifted back, and this time no one is getting off the boat to warn them.
The name Nahum means 'comfort' — an ironic byline for three chapters of judgment. The comfort was for Nineveh's victims, not Nineveh.
Nineveh fell in 612 BC, so thoroughly that its ruins were lost for well over two thousand years — until archaeologists found it across the river from modern Mosul.
Tucked into the storm is one of Scripture's calmest promises: 'The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble.'