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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

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 3:1

NINEVEH’S DIRGE‘Woe to the bloody city!’ Nahum 3:1 I. We now come to stanzas of triumph over the great city’s fall.—For convenience and clearness we may take the closing verses of chapter 2 (i.e., Nahum 3:11-1 Chronicles :) separately, as they contain a kind of dirge which fitly closes the vivid description of the siege and capture. The dirge opens with the old question which is also ever new—the question, ‘What has become of the glory and strength which once seemed so formidable and even... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:1-7

Nahum 3. A fresh Picture of the End of Nineveh. Nahum 3:1-Judges : . Woe to that city of blood, full of lies and rapine, where the prey never ceased, nor was any end to the booty! Now nothing is heard in her but the crack of the whip and the rumbling of wheels, the gallop of steeds and the dashing of chariots, with cavalry at the charge, while the sabres flash and the spears glitter, and underneath men stumble over corpses unnumbered. And all this is the fitting punishment of that... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Nahum 3:1

Woe! a comprehensive threat of many and great calamities coming. To the bloody city; Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrian kingdom: see Nahum 1:1. It is all; every part, officers and rulers, traders, both buyers and sellers, shops, houses, judicatories, all filled with falsehood and lies. Lies; cheating in their trades, and false witnesses before the judges. Robbery; their gain, though they count it honest, is no better in God’s account than robbery or rapine, as is that the lion taketh,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Nahum 3:1-4

CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophet resumes his description of the siege. Blood] Drops of blood shed in murder [Keil]. Lies] Vain promises of help. Depart.] Ceases not to plunder. Nahum 3:2. Noise] In the charges of war-cars. “This passage is unrivalled by any other, either in sacred or profane literature” [Hend.]. Riders dash along, the flame of the sword, the flash of the lance, and the multitude of the slain, depict the attack and its consequences. Nahum 3:4. Whoredoms] The reason of the... 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 3:1

Nah 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not; Ver. 1. Woe to the bloody city ] Nineveh, that delighteth in war, which one well calleth the slaughter house of mankind and hell of this present world, Isaiah 9:5 : the Greek word πολεβμος , war, signifieth much blood ( πολυ αιμα ). besides that, many murders were committed in her, and connived at, if not countenanced, by a pretence of justice. Such a sanguinary city is Rome; not only drunk with the... read more