Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Nahum 1:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
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Quick Meaning
Identifies one destructive counselor emerging from the addressed city and plotting evil against the LORD.
Read It With
- Nahum 1:9-11
Read Nahum 1:11 with 1:9-11. Identifies one destructive counselor emerging from the addressed city and plotting evil against the LORD. The complete unit establishes this movement: The oracle ridicules resistance to the LORD: tangled strength, intoxicated confidence, and a counselor's destructive plot end in complete consumption rather than a second campaign of affliction.
What Remains True
Counsel becomes wicked when it organizes destructive opposition to justice.
How It Can Shape Life
- Examine advisers by the harms their plans produce rather than by rank or success.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Nahum 1:9-11 — Plots against the LORD End Like Dry StubbleSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The counselor is not named; identifications with a particular Assyrian king remain proposals.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Nahum 1:9-11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Nahum
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew words, morphology, clause relationships, repeated roots, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Nah.xml, 1:9-11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Nahum with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, text-critical, poetic, historical, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Nahum PDF, printed pp. 1755-1756, translation and notes on 1:9-11
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