Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 3:1-7
Here is, I. Nineveh arraigned and indicted. It is a high charge that is here drawn up against that great city, and neither her numbers nor her grandeur shall secure her from prosecution. 1. It is a city of blood, in which a great deal of innocent blood is shed by unrighteous war, or under colour and pretence of public justice, or by suffering barbarous murders to go unpunished; for this the righteous God will make inquisition. 2. It is all full of lies; truth is banished from among them; there... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 3
This chapter goes on with the burden of Nineveh, and concludes it. I. The sins of that great city are charged upon it, murder (Nah. 3:1), whoredom and witchcraft (Nah. 3:4), and a general extent of wickedness, Nah. 3:19. II. Judgments are here threatened against it, blood for blood (Nah. 3:2, 3), and shame for shameful sins, Nah. 3:5-7. III. Instances are given of the like desolations brought upon other places for the like sins, Nah. 3:8-11. IV. The overthrow of all those things which they... read more