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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Nahum 1:10

folden = entangled. thorns . The emblem of hostile armies (Isaiah 10:17 ; Isaiah 27:4 ). read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Nahum 1:9

"What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time.""Shall not rise up the second time ..." It will not be necessary for God to destroy his enemies twice; once will be far more than sufficient! Assyria, and all of the great military powers, were engaged in nothing else except strengthening themselves; and, in all such preparations, the essential hostility of those powers against God and against God's people upon earth was abundantly... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Nahum 1:10

"For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.""Entangled like thorns ..." Formidable as a hedge of thorns might appear, when the Lord is ready to remove it, it shall prove to be no obstacle, but itself shall provide the fuel of its own consuming fire."Drunken as with their drink ..." most commentators understand this as a metaphor of nations being drunk upon their own power and intoxicated with their own boasting. Certainly the expression... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Nahum 1:9

Nahum 1:9. What do ye imagine— Why do ye take counsel? &c. The prophet says this to the Ninevites, who seemed willing to repair the loss of Senacherib's army, and to invade Judaea; and it is most likely, says Houbigant, that Nahum, when he delivered this prediction, was a captive in Nineveh, as was Tobias, or in some neighbouring place. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Nahum 1:10

Nahum 1:10. For while they be folden, &c.— For they who sit round their cups, and are drunken as drunkards, shall be, &c. Houbigant. Diodorus relates, that while all the Assyrian army were feasting for their former victories, those about Arbaces, being informed by some deserters of the negligence and drunkenness in the camp of the enemies, assaulted them unexpectedly by night; and, falling orderly upon them disordered, and prepared on them unprepared, became masters of the camp, slew... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nahum 1:9

9. What do ye imagine against the Lord?—abrupt address to the Assyrians. How mad is your attempt, O Assyrians, to resist so powerful a God! What can ye do against such an adversary, successful though ye have been against all other adversaries? Ye imagine ye have to do merely with mortals and with a weak people, and that so you will gain an easy victory; but you have to encounter God, the protector of His people. Parallel to Isaiah 37:23-29; compare Psalms 1:1. he will make an utter end—The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Nahum 1:10

10. while they are folden together as thorns—literally, "to the same degree as thorns" (compare 1 Chronicles 4:27, Margin). As thorns, so folded together and entangled that they cannot be loosed asunder without trouble, are thrown by the husbandmen all in a mass into the fire, so the Assyrians shall all be given together to destruction. Compare 2 Samuel 23:6; 2 Samuel 23:7, where also "thorns" are the image of the wicked. As this image represents the speediness of their destruction in a mass,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Nahum 1:2-14

II. NINEVEH’S DESTRUCTION DECLARED 1:2-14The rest of chapter 1 declares Nineveh’s destruction in rather hymnic style, and chapters 2 and 3 describe its destruction. Each of these major parts of the book opens with a revelation of Yahweh. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Nahum 1:9

Yahweh will frustrate and destroy all attempts to thwart His will. Even though they may appear to succeed at first, they will not endure. Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, had besieged Jerusalem once (1 Kings 18), but the Assyrians never did so a second time. Their plan to oppose God’s people was really opposition to Him, and He did not permit it to succeed. Once Nineveh fell, it was never rebuilt. [Note: The New Bible . . ., s.v. "Nineveh."] read more

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