John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps ,.... The metaphor is still continued; and the kings of Assyria are compared to lions that hunt for their prey, and, having found it, tear it in pieces, and carry home a sufficiency for their whelps. It is a notion that is advanced by some writers, as Herodotus F16 Thalia, sive l. 3. c. 108. , that the lioness, the strongest and boldest creature, brings forth but once in its life, and then but one; which Gellius F17 Noctes Atticae,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 2:11-13
Here we have Nineveh's ruin, 1. Triumphed in by its neighbours, who now remember against it all the oppressions and abuse of power it had been guilty of in its pomp and prosperity (Nah. 2:11, 12): Where is the dwelling of the lions? It is gone; there appear no remnants, no footsteps, of it. Where is the feeding place of the young lions, where they glutted themselves with prey? The princes of Nineveh had been as lions, as beasts of prey; cruel tyrants are no better, nay, in this respect much... read more