Nahum 3:4

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

Cross-reference

Nahum 1:14 Parallel

Nahum 1:14 pronounces judgment on Nineveh (no more name, cut off idols), while 3:4 gives the reason—her harlotry. Cause and effect within same prophecy.

Revelation 17:1-5 explicitly depicts a harlot city drunk with sorceries, directly echoing Nahum’s image—likely a typological fulfillment of judgment on Babylon.

Revelation 18:3 describes nations drunk with the harlot’s adulteries, sharing the motif of seduction through sin—similar to Nineveh’s harlotries.

In Revelation 18:23, Babylon the harlot deceives nations with sorcery, directly echoing Nahum's description of Nineveh as a prostitute with deadly charms.

In 2 Kings 9:22, Jehu condemns Jezebel's 'whorings and sorceries'—the same phrase used in Nahum 3:4 for Nineveh's seduction of nations.

In Isaiah 23:17, Tyre is depicted as a prostitute returning to her trade with all kingdoms—same harlot metaphor for a commercial city that seduces nations.

Ezekiel 16:35 addresses Jerusalem as 'O prostitute'—the same prophetic indictment using harlot imagery for a faithless city.

Isaiah 23:15-17 portrays Tyre as a prostitute forgotten then restored—similar harlot metaphor for a trading city, but Tyre's fate differs from Nineveh's.

Isaiah 47:12 mocks Babylon's reliance on sorceries and enchantments—echoing the same futile trust in occult practices condemned in Nineveh.

Isaiah 47:13 targets astrologers and stargazers, a specific form of sorcery—expanding the sorcery theme to include false religious counsel.