John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh ,.... Of the city of Nineveh, and the greatness of it; see Gill on Jonah 1:2 ; See Gill on Jonah 3:3 ; Jonah was sent to this city to threaten it with ruin for its sins; at that time the king and all his people humbled themselves and repented, and the threatened destruction was averted; but they relapsing to their former iniquities, this prophet foretells what would be their certain fate; very rightly therefore the Targum, and some other Jewish writings F13 ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Nahum 1:1
This title directs us to consider, 1. The great city against which the word of the Lord is here delivered; it is the burden of Nineveh, not only a prophecy, and a weighty one, but a burdensome prophecy, a dead weight to Nineveh, a mill-stone hanged about its neck. Nineveh was the place concerned, and the Assyrian monarchy, which that was the royal seat of. About 100 years before this Jonah had, in God's name, foretold the speedy overthrow of this great city; but then the Ninevites repented and... read more