Nahum 3:8-13 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 3:8-19

Nineveh has been told that God is against her, and then none can be for her, to stand her in any stead; yet she sets God himself at defiance, and his power and justice, and says, I shall have peace. Threatened folks live long; therefore here the prophet largely shows how vain her confidences would prove and insufficient to ward off the judgment of God. To convince them of this, I. He shows them that other places, which had been as strong and as secure as they, could not keep their ground... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:8

Art thou better than populous No ,.... Or No Amon, a city in Egypt so called, not because the kings of Egypt were nursed and brought up there, as Jarchi and Abarbinel; see Proverbs 8:30 but from Ham the son of Noah, whose land Egypt was; or from Jupiter Ammon, worshipped there. No Amon signifies the mansion or palace of Ham, or Hamon; the Egyptians, as Herodotus says F8 Vid. Schultens in Job xiv. 11. , call Jupiter by the name of Ammon. The Targum interprets it of Alexandria the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:9

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength ,.... That is, the strength, support, protection, and defence of No, whether Alexandria, or Thebes, or Memphis: Egypt was, for these cities were in it, and subject to it; or, if this was a free city, as some think, yet in alliance with Egypt, and under its protection; and in like connection it was with Ethiopia, that is, Arabia, a country that lay near to it; and yet, though it was strengthened by such powerful neighbours and allies, it was not secure... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:10

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity ,.... Not by Nebuchadnezzar; though this city was afterwards taken, and its inhabitants carried captive, by that monarch, as was foretold, Jeremiah 46:25 but the prophet here does not predict an event to be accomplished, and instance in that, and argue from it, which could have no effect on Nineveh and its inhabitants, or be an example or terror to them; but refers to what had been done, a recent fact, and which they were well acquainted... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:11

Thou also shalt be drunken ,.... This is said to Nineveh, whose turn would be next to drink of the cup of the wrath of God, and be inebriated with it, so that they should not know where they were, or what they did; and be as unable to guide and help themselves as a drunken man. So the Targum, "thou also shalt be like to a drunken man;' this was literally true of Nineveh when taken; see Nahum 1:10 , thou shalt be hid ; or, "thou shall be", as if thou wast not; as Nineveh is at this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:12

All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs ,.... Upon them, or like them: "and the first ripe figs"; which are easily shook and gathered; and so easily should the fortresses and towers of Nineveh, in which they trusted for safety, be taken by the enemy, not only one, but all of them: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater ; as such ripe fruit is very desirable, and the mouth of a man is open and ready for them; so if he gives the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:13

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women ,.... Or like women, weak and feeble, fearful and timorous; frightened at the first approach of the enemy; run away, and run up and down in the utmost consternation and distress, having neither skill nor courage to oppose them; some regard may be had to the effeminacy of their king; see Nahum 2:7 . The sense is, they should be at once dispirited, and lose all strength of mind and body, and have neither heads nor hearts to form schemes,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:8

Art thou better than populous No - No-Ammon, or Diospolis, in the Delta, on one branch of the Nile. This is supposed to be the city mentioned by Nahum; and which had been lately destroyed, probably by the Chaldeans. The waters round about it - Being situated in the Delta, it had the fork of two branches of the Nile to defend it by land; and its barrier or wall was the sea, the Mediterranean, into which these branches emptied themselves: so that this city, and the place it stood on, were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:9

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength - The land of Cush, not far from Diospolis; for it was in Arabia, on the Red Sea. Put and Lubim - A part of Africa and Libya, which were all within reach of forming alliances with No-Ammon or Diospolis. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:10

They cast lots for her honorable men - This refers still to the city called populous No. And the custom of casting lots among the commanders, for the prisoners which they had taken, is here referred to. Great men were bound in chains - These were reserved to grace the triumph of the victor. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 3:8-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:10

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