Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:9
Affliction shall not rise up the second time - There shall be no need to repeat the judgment; with one blow God will make a full end of the business. read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:10
While they be folden together - However united their counsels may be, they shall be as drunken men - perplexed and unsteady in all their resolutions; and before God's judgments they shall be as dry thorns before a devouring fire. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:11
Imagineth evil against the Lord - Such were Pul, 2 Kings 15:10 , Tiglath-pileser, 2 Kings 15:29 ; Shalmaneser, 2 Kings 17:6 ; and Sennacherib, 2 Kings 18:17 ; 2 Kings 19:23 . A wicked counsellor - Sennacherib and Rabshakeh. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:12
Though they be - many - Sennacherib invaded Judea with an army of nearly two hundred thousand men. Thus shall they be cut down - The angel of the Lord (a suffocating wind) slew of them in one night one hundred and eighty-five thousand 2 Kings 19:35 . read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:13
Now will I break his yoke from off thee - This refers to the tribute which the Jews were obliged to pay to the Assyrians, 2 Kings 17:14 . read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:7
Verse 7 The Prophet expresses more clearly here what we referred to in our last lecture, — that God is hard and severe toward refractory men, and that he is merciful and kind to the teachable and the obedient, — not that God changes his nature, or that like Proteus he puts on various forms; but because he treats men according to their disposition. (214) As then the Prophet has hitherto taught us, that God’s wrath cannot be sustained by mortals; so now, that no one might complain of extreme... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:8
Verse 8 The Prophet goes on with the same subject, — that God can easily preserve his people, for he is armed with power sufficient to overcome the whole world. But the Prophet now includes the two things which have been mentioned: Having spoken in general of God’s wrath, and of his goodness towards the faithful, he now applies his doctrine to the consolation of his chosen people. It is then a special application of his doctrine, when he says, By inundation, he, passing through, will make a... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:9
Verse 9 Some interpreters so consider this verse also, as though the Prophet had said, that the calamity of the chosen people would not be a destruction, as God would observe some moderation and keep within certain limits. The unbelieving, we know, immediately exult, whenever the children of God are oppressed by adverse things, as though it were all over with the Church. Hence the Prophet here, according to these interpreters, meets and checks this sort of petulance, What imagine ye against... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:10
Verse 10 He goes on with this same subject, — that Gods when he pleases to exercise his power, can, with no difficulty, consume his enemies: for the similitude, which is here added, means this, — that nothing is safe from God’s vengeance; for by perplexed thorns he understands things difficult to be handled. When thorns are entangled, we dare not, with the ends of our fingers, to touch their extreme parts; for wherever we put our hands, thorns meet and prick us. As then pricking from entangled... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 1:8
But with an overrunning flood - Bishop Newcome thinks this may refer to the manner in which Nineveh was taken. The Euphrates overflowed its banks, deluged a part of the city, and overturned twenty stadia of the wall; in consequence of which the desponding king burnt himself, and his palace, with his treasures. - Diodor. Sic., Edit. Wessel., p. 140, lib. ii., s. 27. Darkness shall pursue - Calamity. All kinds of calamity shall pursue them till they are destroyed. read more