22:1 Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: 1
What is the reason 2
that all of you go up to the rooftops?
1:1 The oracle against Nineveh; 3
the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: 4
1 sn The following message pertains to Jerusalem. The significance of referring to the city as the Valley of Vision is uncertain. Perhaps the Hinnom Valley is in view, but why it is associated with a prophetic revelatory “vision” is not entirely clear. Maybe the Hinnom Valley is called this because the destruction that will take place there is the focal point of this prophetic message (see v. 5).
2 tn Heb “What to you, then?”
3 tn Heb “of Nineveh.”
4 tn Or “Nahum of Elkosh” (NAB, NRSV).