Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 114:4, mountains skip like rams and hills like lambs—identical cosmic response to God's presence.
In Matthew 28:2, another earthquake at the resurrection echoes the theophanic shaking, showing God's power over death.
In Matthew 27:51, the earthquake at Christ's death repeats the cosmic trembling at God's presence, linking judgment and redemption.
In Micah 1:4, mountains melt like wax before fire, mirroring the melting hills of Nahum's judgment scene.
In Jeremiah 4:24, mountains quake and hills shake—directly parallel to Nahum's mountains quaking and hills melting.
In Isaiah 64:1, the prophet prays for mountains to shake at God's coming, directly echoing Nahum's imagery.
In Psalm 97:5, mountains melt like wax before the Lord—direct verbal parallel to hills melting in Nahum.
In Psalm 68:8, the earth shook before God at Sinai—identical imagery of creation trembling at divine presence.
In Psalm 46:6, the earth melts at God's voice, paralleling the quaking and melting of Nahum's theophany.
In Psalm 29:6, God makes Lebanon skip like a calf—direct parallel to mountains quaking and hills melting at His presence.
2 Samuel 22:8 describes the earth reeling and trembling at God's anger—identical imagery of mountains quaking before Him as in Nahum.
In Judges 5:5, the mountains melt before the Lord, using the same poetic imagery of divine theophany.
Psalm 46:3 also says 'mountains quake' — directly parallels the same image of God's power shaking creation.
Psalm 104:32 directly parallels: earth trembles, mountains smoke at God's touch — almost identical theophany.
In Exodus 19:18, Mount Sinai quakes at God's descent, the prototype for all later theophanic shaking.
Isaiah 24:19 depicts earth utterly broken and shaken — strong parallel to Nahum's trembling earth.
1 Kings 19:11 describes wind tearing mountains apart as God passes — a direct parallel to mountains quaking before Him here.
Joel 2:10 echoes the earth quaking and heavens trembling—directly parallels Nahum's mountains melting in divine judgment.
Amos 8:8 asks 'shall not the land tremble?'—same image of earth shaking under God's judgment, reinforcing the theme.
Habakkuk 3:6 says eternal mountains scatter and everlasting hills sink low—nearly identical to Nahum's mountains melting.
2 Peter 3:10 describes the heavens and earth being destroyed by fire — mirroring Nahum's cosmic upheaval and melting hills.
In Isaiah 2:12-14, God brings low lofty mountains and hills—symbolizing pride, while Nahum describes literal shaking at God's presence.
In 2 Peter 3:7-12, the elements melt with fire at the day of the Lord, recalling the melting of hills at God's presence.
In Revelation 20:11, the earth fleeing from God's face intensifies the trembling in Nahum — all creation recoils at His judgment.
In Isaiah 64:2, fire and trembling expand the theophanic imagery — nations tremble as mountains melt in judgment.
Psalm 50:3 shows God coming with fire and tempest — similar theophany but different elements than quaking mountains here.
Deuteronomy 32:22 uses fire that burns to the foundations of mountains — similar imagery of God's wrath affecting mountains.