_Blood. Nemrod established his power by shedding blood, Genesis x. Ninus, who built Ninive, and his successors were also bloody. After 1200 years the empire decayed under Sardanapalus, as historians agree. Yet it continued longer, according to the Scriptures and Ribera, till the Chaldeans destroyed... [ Continue Reading ]
_The noise. He has described the forces of Ninive, now he specifies those of Cyaxares and Nabopolassar._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Harlot. Ninive is cruel and impure, engaging others in idolatry and witchcraft. (Calmet) --- Sold, forcing them to adopt her manners, Romans vii. 14._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bemoan. Literally, "shake his head: " the latter words are not in [the] Hebrew. (Haydock) --- Some supply, move his lips: but head will answer as well. This is a sign of derision or of pity, Job xlii. 11., and Matthew xxvii. 39. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Populous Alexandria. No-Amon. A populous city of Egypt, destroyed by the Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and called Alexandria. Others suppose No-Amon to be the same as Diospolis. (Challoner) --- This seems preferable, as it was amidst waters and near the Mediterranean. Profane hist... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ethiopia; Chus, in Arabia, not far from Diospolis._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Captivity. It was afterwards re-established and taken by Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) --- Fetters, or stocks. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Drunk, and be chastised by God, Ezechiel xxiii. 32. --- From, to escape._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Water. This was a necessary precaution, 2 Paralipomenon xxxii. 3. --- Brick, to repair the breaches._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Locust. Yet all will be in vain. Thy numbers will be cut off as easily as locusts._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Away. Thus did the merchants, at the approach of the enemy._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Guards. Hebrew, "crowned" princes. --- Little. Hebrew, "satraps are like great locusts, which," &c. St. Jerome has read (Calmet) toppic instead of taphseraic, (Haydock) which [the] Septuagint neglect. Thapsar denotes an officer, Jeremias li. 27. (Calmet) --- Of locusts. The young locusts. (Challone... [ Continue Reading ]
_Slumbered. They have not guarded the flock. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hidden. Hebrew and Septuagint, "irremediable," (Haydock) --- No one pities thy wound, Chaldean. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]