LORD of Hosts
LORD of hosts — Jehovah, commander of the armies of heaven
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. Nahum 3:5
Jehovah repeats His sentence against Nineveh's wickedness. The same LORD who judges the violent city is the Christ who will judge all the earth.
AttestedJehovah — the LORDHe speaks in the first person
How we know: the verse itself names Him
- the same title in Nahum 2:13 — The identical declaration of the LORD of hosts.