Verse 14
"And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy 'gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make thy grave; for thou art vile."
"I will cut off the graven image and the molten image ..." Assyria had repeatedly robbed the gods of other nations from temples and carried them as booty to Nineveh; but the promise here was that Assyria's gods would suffer a like fate. Hailey listed the gods of Assyria as: "Ashur, Nabu, Anu, Adad, the goddess, Ishtar, and others."[21] 'Jamieson added Nisroch to the list, translating the passage here as, "I will make the house of thy gods thy grave!"[22] Sennacherib was slain in the house of his god; and when the whole city fell, the pagan temples became the hecatomb of the people, literally fulfilling the prophecy.
"For thou art vile ..." See under Nahum 1:3, above for summary of similar teachings in Nahum.
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