那鴻書 2:7-10 CUNPTS

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

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 2:7

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:10

She is empty and void and waste - The completeness of her judgment is declared first under that solemn number, Three, and the three words in Hebrew are nearly the same , with the same meaning, only each word fuller than the former, as picturing a growing desolation; and then under four heads (in all seven) also a growing fear. First the heart, the seat of courage and resolve and high purpose, melteth; then the knees smite together, tremble, shake, under the frame; then, much pain is in all... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 2:7

Nahum 2:7. And Huzzab shall be led away captive By Huzzab the Chaldee understands the queen, who, without due respect to her royal dignity, should be hurried away, among other captives, into a strange land; and exposed, as they, to danger and insolence. And her maids The ladies that waited on her in her state of royalty, shall now be her companions in her captivity; shall lead her Shall support their sorrowful, weary, and fainting queen, spent with such travel as she had not been used... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 2:8

Nahum 2:8. But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water “Id est, supra modum populosa, nam aquæ populi.” That is, above measure populous, for waters signify people. Grotius. Yet they shall flee away But they shall all flee for fear of the enemy, and run away like water: compare Psalms 58:7. Stand, stand, shall they cry, but none shall look back Their commanders shall call out to them to stand, but none shall pay any regard to them, or cease to flee. The Hebrew is peculiarly animated, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 2:9-10

Nahum 2:9-10. Take ye the spoil of silver, of gold Here the Babylonians are addressed as if they had just entered the city; and are bid to take the spoil of it, there being none to make any resistance. We read in Diodorus, that Arbaces carried many talents of gold and silver to Ecbatana, the royal city of the Medes. For there is none end of the store, &c. The Vulgate reads, There is no end of the riches, from all the desirable vessels. The sense of the Hebrew, however, is, The... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Nahum 2:1-13

2:1-3:19 THE DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEHDestroyed because of cruelty (2:1-13)Chapters 2 and 3 consist of two separate poems on the same subject, the destruction of Nineveh and the reasons for it. Nahum begins his graphic description of the attack on Nineveh by calling upon the watchman on the city wall to alert the city that the enemy is approaching. God is now going to destroy those who destroyed Israel and oppressed Judah (2:1-2).The prophet pictures the brightly uniformed soldiers, the gleaming... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:9-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 2:10

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 2:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 2:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 2:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 2:9-10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Nahum 2:1-13

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