ナホム書 3:16 JCB

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

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:11-19

Nahum 3:11-Psalms : . Even so Nineveh shall be made drunk with the cup of God’ s wrath, and faint and staggering shall seek refuge from the enemy. Her outer fortresses shall fall like first-ripe figs ( Isaiah 28:4 *) into the mouth of the destroyer, the gateways that barred the approach to the capital shall fly open at the touch of fire, her defenders shall prove weak as women, and despite all efforts to repair the breaches the whole city shall sink beneath the flames. Her people may be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nahum 3:16

Thou hast multiplied for number; and, as the word may import, thou hast greatened them, thou reliest on their purse and interest. Thy merchants; either literally, or figuratively, thy great men, princes, and rulers, which sold and bought, Nahum 3:4; or thy confederates, who by virtue of such leagues have free commerce with thee; and this is most likely to be the meaning. Above the stars; proverbially taken for a very great number. The canker-worm spoileth, and fleeth away: this seems an abrupt... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Nahum 3:14-18

CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 3:14. Draw] for a long-continued siege, improve fortifications, put the kiln in order for burning bricks. Nahum 3:15. Make] Multiply thyself, like the largest and most formidable locusts. Nahum 3:16.] Traders and merchants increased innumerable as the stars, but fire and sword would devour all. Nahum 3:17. Crowned] rulers or vassal princes which encamp in the cold and flee away in the sun. “The wings of locusts become stiffened in the cold; but as soon as the warm rays of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:1-19

Chapter 3Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots. [Suppose that would have been helicopters.] The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Nahum 3:1-19

Nahum 3:1 . Woe to the bloody city. Nineveh was drunk with blood. She was burdened with the wealth of plundered nations; her feasts and idolatries filled up the measure of her iniquity. Oh how sublimely is her fall described. Nahum 3:5 . I will show the nations thy nakedness. See on Ezekiel 16:37. Nahum 3:8 . Populous No. No-Hammon, the god Hammon, from Ham the son of Noah. Thebes or Diospolis, as called by the Greeks. See the note on Ezekiel 30:15, and Jeremiah 46:25. It was the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Nahum 3:16

Nah 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Ver. 16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven ] And so thinkest to have a stake in store howsoever the dice chance to turn. For these merchants were very rich, and could furnish her with money, which is the sinews of war. Besides, they traded far and near; and so could give intelligence, and if need were, waylay and intercept the enemies’ contributions, that... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Nahum 3:16

above: Genesis 15:5, Genesis 22:17, Nehemiah 9:23, Jeremiah 33:22 spoileth: or, spreadeth himself Reciprocal: Ezekiel 30:21 - it shall not read more