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Will God flood the earth again?
The covenant excludes another world destroying flood, while Nahum threatens destruction of a place; the difference in scope prevents a direct contradiction.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
A threat against a particular place does not violate a covenant excluding another flood that destroys all flesh.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
God promises no further flood destroying all flesh
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:11-15
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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God threatens a destructive flood against a particular place
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof