那鴻書 3:6 CUNPTS

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 The "Old Lion" has withdrawn to his inner den, and is making his last stand.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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:1-7

1-7 When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression. They are preparing enemies for themselves; and if the Lord sees good to punish them in this world, they will have none to pity them. Every man who seeks his own prosperity, safety, and peace, should not only act in an upright, honourable manner, but with kindness to all. 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

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Nahum 3:1-19

CHAPTER 3[The Prophet resumes the Description of the Siege of Nineveh (Nahum 3:1-3); traces it to her Idolatry as its cause (Nahum 3:4); repeats the Divine Denunciations introduced Nahum 2:13 (Nahum 3:5-7); points her to the once celebrated, but now desolate Thebes (Nahum 3:8-10), declaring that such should likewise be herFate; calls upon her ironically to make every Preparation for her Defense, assuring her that it would be of no avail (Nahum 3:14-15); and concludes by contrasting her former... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Nahum 3:1-19

Deserved Doom Nahum 3:1-19 This terrible chapter pictures the doom of Nineveh. She had used infamous methods in bringing surrounding nations under her power, and now her shame was to be discovered and exposed. It seemed incredible that so great a city should become desolate, but she is reminded of the populous Thebes especially dedicated to Ammon, the Egyptian Jupiter. As this great city had been overwhelmed by Assyria, so would Nineveh be by the Chaldeans. In spite of her Nile and her... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Nahum 3:1-19

The last part of the prophecy is devoted wholly to the vindication of Jehovah's action against Nineveh, and is a fitting defense of the introductory declarations concerning His character. In the first movement the prophet describes Nineveh as a "bloody city," evil and cruel. A graphic description of vengeance, consisting of seven illustrations, follows. In the second movement he more particularly describes both the vice and the vengeance. The national method was whoredom, that is, idolatrous... read more