Nahum 3:7

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Nahum 3:7

And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee ,.... As something loathsome and abominable, not fit to be come near unto, or touched; and as astonished and amazed at an object so forlorn and miserable, and lest they should partake of the same punishment: and say, Nineveh is laid waste ; utterly destroyed; its walls broke down, its houses demolished, its substance plundered, and its inhabitants killed, or carried captive; who could have thought it,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:7

Who will bemoan her? - In such cases, who pities the delinquent? She has been the occasion of ruin to multitudes, and now she is deservedly exposed and punished. And so it should be thought concerning Nineveh. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Nahum 3:7

Verse 7 When he says, כל-ראיך, cal-raik, ‘whosoever sees thee,’ we hence learn again that רואי, ruai, at the end of the last verse, is to be taken for example or spectacle; for the Prophet proceeds with the same subject: I will make thee, he says,an example, or a spectacle. — For what purpose? that whosoever sees thee may depart from thee (242) And it was an evidence of horror, though some think it to have been a reward for her cruelty, that no one came to Nineveh, but that she was forsaken by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 3:1-7

§ 1. The prophet specifies the crimes which have brought this ruin upon Nineveh. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 3:1-7

Woe to Nineveh. I. THREATENED . ( Nahum 3:1 .) 1. By the prophet. Jonah ( Jonah 3:4 ) had once before announced the destruction of the Assyrian capital, which threatening, however, was averted by the repentance of its inhabitants; Nahum's prediction was literally fulfilled, because Nineveh in due time filled up the measure of its iniquities. 2 . In the name of God. Had Nineveh's doom been pronounced only by Nahum's lips, it had been harmless; but Nahum was the mouthpiece... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 3:1-7

The guilt and ruin of Nineveh. We have here— I. A MOURNFUL REVELATION OF NATIONAL GUILT AND DEPRAVITY . ( Nahum 3:1 , Nahum 3:4 .) The Assyrians are here charged with: 1 . Unrighteous war. ( Nahum 3:1 .) There may be times in a nation's history when war becomes a dire necessity; but all war prompted, not by the desire to defend against unworthy aggression, but by unholy ambition, aggrandizement, lust of conquest and glory, deserves the severest reprobation.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 3:1-19

Part III . THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT — SINS OF THE CITY , WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Nahum 3:7

Shall flee from thee. As an object of disgust, or fearing to be involved in thy ruin ( Revelation 18:10 , Revelation 18:15 ). Who will bemoan her? No one will pity her for her well deserved chastisement ( Jeremiah 15:5 ). Whence shall I seek, etc.? Truly, nowhere in all the world (comp. Isaiah 51:19 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Nahum 3:7

All they that look upon thee shall flee from thee - through terror, lest they should share her plagues, as Israel did, when the earth swallowed up Korah, Dathan and Abiram; and they who “had been made rich by Babylon, stand ajar off, for the fear of her torment. All they who look on thee” Revelation 18:15. She was set as a thing to be “gazed at.” He tells the effect on the gazers. “Each one who so gazed” at her should flee; one by one, they should gaze, be scared, flee (compare Psalms 31:11;... read more

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