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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Nahum 3:15-16

(15, 16) The diversion of metaphor here is somewhat repugnant to modern taste. The sword, like the locust, shall devour Nineveh. Yet Nineveh is immediately afterwards compared in its numbers, destructive influence, and sudden disappearance to the locust. It is a transition like St. Paul’s “going off at a word.” The comparison of the locust suggests the thought that Nineveh herself has been a locust-pest to the world, and the direction of the metaphor is thereupon suddenly changed. A paraphrase... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Nahum 3:16

(16) Spoileth.—Better, spreads itself out: swarms out to spoil. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:1-19

THE SIEGE AND FALL OF NINEVEHNahum 2:1-13; Nahum 3:1-19THE scene now changes from the presence and awful arsenal of the Almighty to the historical consummation of His vengeance. Nahum foresees the siege of Nineveh. Probably the Medes have already overrun Assyria. The "Old Lion" has withdrawn to his inner den, and is making his last stand. The suburbs are full of the enemy, and the great walls which made the inner city one vast fortress are invested. Nahum describes the details of the assault.... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Nahum 3:1-19

CHAPTER 3 Nineveh’s Guilt and Well-Deserved Judgment 1. The great wickedness of Nineveh (Nahum 3:1-7 ) 2. Her fate to be like the fate of No-Amon (Nahum 3:8-13 ) 3. Her well-deserved and complete judgment (Nahum 3:14-19 ) Nahum 3:1-7 . Nineveh was a bloody city, for her kings never knew peace, but were constantly at war. The Hebrew Ir-Damim means “city of blood drops.” They boasted of making the blood of their enemies run like rivers. It was a city full of lies and rapine. Her word could... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:1-19

NAHUM CONSOLATION FOR ISRAEL Isaiah concludes his work at about the end of Hezekiah’s reign, which synchronizes with the captivity of the ten tribes of Israel by the Assyrians. At this period of perplexity, when the overthrow of Samaria (the capital of Israel) must have suggested to Judah fears for her own safety, when Jerusalem (the capital of Judah) had been drained of its treasure by Hezekiah in the vain hope of turning the fury of the Assyrians from her, and when rumors of the conquest of... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Nahum 3:1-19

The Uses of History Nahum 3:0 "Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery" ( Nah 3:1 ). The city was Nineveh. The city is every city under the sun. There is something in the very word "city" suggestive of this kind of prosperity. It would seem as if city-building were a practical blasphemy. We cannot account for this, but the light of history seems to direct our attention in this unhappy direction. Nineveh had repented under the preaching of Jonah; Nineveh had forgotten her... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Nahum 3:6-19

I include the whole of this passage in one view for the sake of shortness, having already extended the Commentary very much beyond the original design. The whole of Nahum's prophecy, if taken literally, and with an eye to the history of Nineveh, and the Church, is interesting. But if read spiritually, as typifying in Nineveh the enemies of the Church, and the Lord's deliverance of his people, and the final destruction of their foes, in the redemption by Christ, riseth to a degree of sublimity,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:16

Away. Thus did the merchants, at the approach of the enemy. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:8-19

8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worms. The Assyrians also would be eaten up by their own numerous hired troops, which seem to be meant by the word rendered "merchants." Those that have done evil to their neighbours, will find it come home to them. Nineveh, and many other cities, states, and empires, have been ruined, and should be a... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Nahum 3:1-19

The Miserable Ruin of Nineveh. Jehovah now shows that the cause of Nineveh's destruction is its wickedness, and that for this reason the city is bound to submit to the sentence which has been pronounced upon her. v. 1. Woe to the bloody city, or, "O city of blood, of blood-guiltiness!". It is all full of lies and robbery, so that deceit, violence, and extortion were the order of the day; the prey departeth not, robbery goes on without ceasing; v. 2. the noise of a whip, its sharp crack... read more