ナホム書 2:6-10 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:6

All defence is vain. The prophet describes the last scene. The gates of the rivers shall be ( are ) opened . The simplest explanation of this much disputed clause is, according to Strauss and others, the following: The gates intended are those adjacent to the streams which encircled the city, and which were therefore the best defended and the hardest to capture. When these were carried, there was no way of escape for the besieged. But, as Rosenmuller remarks, it would have been an act... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:7

And Huzzab. The Anglican rendering (which has the authority of the Jewish commentators, and is endorsed by Ewald and Ruckert) takes Huzzab as an appellative, either the name of the Queen of Nineveh, or a symbolical name for Nineveh itself, as Sheshach, Peked, and Merathaim were for Babylon (see Jeremiah 25:26 : 1:21; Jeremiah 51:41 ; Ezekiel 23:23 ), which was formed or adopted by Nahum for the purpose of describing its character. Huzzab may mean "established," "act firm" ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:8

The prophet compares the past and present condition of Nineveh. But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water; and (or, though ) Nineveh hath been like a pool of water all her days. Others, altering the points in accordance with the Septuagint and Vulgate, translate, "But as for Nineveh, her waters are like a pool of water." This is what she has come to, for "her waters" represent herself. She is compared to a pool or reservoir ( Nehemiah 2:15 ; Nehemiah 3:15 ) from the multitude of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:9

The prophet calls on the invaders to come and gather the spoil of the city, which God gives into their hands. Take ye the spoil. Fabulous stories are told of the amount of the precious metals stored in Nineveh and Babylon. "Sardanapalus is said to have placed a hundred and fifty golden beds, and as many tables of the same metal, on his funeral pile, besides gold and silver vases and ornaments in enormous quantities, and purple and many-coloured raiments (Athen; lib. 12.). According to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:9-13

§ 2. The city is plundered, and henceforth lies waste, in terrible contrast with its former excellency, read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:10

She is empty, and void, and waste. Bukahum' bukah, um' bulakah. The three words are of very similar meaning and sound, and express most forcibly the utter ruin of the city. A Latin commentator has endeavoured to imitate the Hebrew paronomasia by rendering them, "vacuitas, evacuatio, evanidatio"—a translation more ingenious than classical. The paronomasia is better rendered by "vastitas, vastitia, vacuitas," and the German, "leer und ausgeleert und verheert." "Sack and sacking and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:6

The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be disolved - All gives way in an instant at the will of God; the strife is hushed; no more is said of war and death; there is no more resistance or bloodshed; no sound except the wailing of the captives, the flight of those who can escape, while the conquerors empty it of the spoil, and then she is left a waste. The swelling of the river and the opening made by it may have given rise to the traditional account of Ctesias, although... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:7

The first word should he rendered, “And it is decreed; She shall be laid bare. It is decreed.” All this took place, otherwise than man would have thought, because it was the will of God. She (the people of the city, under the figure of a captive woman) “shall be laid bare,” in shame, to her reproach; “she shall be brought up” , to judgment, or from Nineveh as being now sunk low and depressed; “and her maids,” the lesser cities, as female attendants on the royal city, and their inhabitants... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water - that is, of many peoples Revelation 17:1, gathered from all quarters and settled there, her multitudes being like the countless drops, full, untroubled, with no ebb or flow, fenced in, “from the days that she hath been,” yet even therefore stagnant and corrupted (see Jeremiah 48:11), not “a fountain of living waters,” during 600 years of unbroken empire; even lately it had been assailed in vain ; now its hour was come, the sluices were broken; the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:9

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold - Nineveh had not hearkened of old to the voice of the prophet, but had turned back to sin; it cannot hearken now, for fear. He turns to the spoiler to whom God’s judgments assigned her, and who is too ready to hear. The gold and silver, which the last Assyrian King had gathered into the palace which he fired, was mostly removed (the story says, treacherously) to Babylon. Arbaces is said to have borne this and to have removed the residue, to... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:9-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:9

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