George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Nahum 3:2
The noise. He has described the forces of Ninive, now he specifies those of Cyaxares and Nabopolassar.
The noise. He has described the forces of Ninive, now he specifies those of Cyaxares and Nabopolassar.
THE NOISE (LITERALLY, “VOICE”) OF THE WHIP - There is cry against cry; the voice of the enemy, brought upon them through the voice of the oppressed. Blood hath a voice which crieth Genesis 4:10 to hea...
CHAPTER 3 Nineveh's Guilt and Well-Deserved Judgment _ 1. The great wickedness of Nineveh (Nahum 3:1) _ 2. Her fate to be like the fate of No-Amon (Nahum 3:8) 3. Her well-deserved and complete jud...
NAHUM 3. A FRESH PICTURE OF THE END OF NINEVEH. Nahum 3:1. Woe to that city of blood, full of lies and rapine, where the prey never ceased, nor was any end to the booty! Now nothing is heard in her bu...
THE NOISE, &C. Between verses: Nahum 3:1 supply the logical _Ellipsis_ (App-6), thus: "is not released. [Hark! the enemy is within thy gates!] The noise of. whip... chariot". JUMPING. bumping, or sou...
_NINEVEH'S TERRIBLE UNGODLINESS -- NAHUM 3:1-7:_ Nineveh was the capital of crime and evil. It was a city of murder and treachery. It was doomed because of its wickedness. Their practice of preying up...
WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! &C.— _Woe to the bloody city, which is wholly perfidious and full of cruelty; whence rapines depart not.—_Ver. 2. _Lo! the sound of the whip is at hand, the sound of the rattli...
CHAPTER XIV THE EPITAPH OF NINEVEH WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY. Nahum 3:1-3 RV. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. The noise of the whip, and the noise of...
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. THE NOISE OF A WHIP, AND THE NOISE OF THE RATTLING OF THE WHEELS, AND OF T...
THE DOOM OF NINEVEH 1-7. Another threat against Nineveh, showing that disaster has come upon her on account of her sins. The keynote of the whole chapter is the fierce cry, WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! IT...
NAHUM, *PROPHET OF COMFORT NAHUM _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 Trouble will come to you, city of blood! You are full of lies. You are full of things that your people stole! There were always p...
THE NOISE OF... — Better, _Hark to the whip, and hark to the rattling of the wheel, and the horse galloping, and the chariot bounding._ The entry of the victorious besiegers is here described....
קֹ֣ול שֹׁ֔וט וְ קֹ֖ול רַ֣עַשׁ אֹופָ֑ן וְ
THE SIEGE AND FALL OF NINEVEH Nahum 2:1; Nahum 3:1 THE scene now changes from the presence and awful arsenal of the Almighty to the historical consummation of His vengeance. Nahum foresees the siege...
DESERVED DOOM Nahum 3:1-19 This terrible chapter pictures the doom of Nineveh. She had used infamous methods in bringing surrounding nations under her power, and now her shame was to be discovered an...
The last part of the prophecy is devoted wholly to the vindication of Jehovah's action against Nineveh, and is a fitting defense of the introductory declarations concerning His character. In the firs...
The noise of a whip, (b) and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. (b) He shows how the Chaldeans will hasten, and how courageous their hor...
The last verse in this passage serves to throw a light upon the whole; and proves that it is the cause of the Church which the Lord is contending for. And if the Reader attends to the whole prophecy o...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. Singular was the reproach of the Jews in the time of our Lord (John 7:52); for there were prophets who had arisen out of Galilee. Jonah and Nahum were both G...
The Prophet represents here as in a lively picture, what was nigh the Assyrians; for he sets forth the Chaldeans their enemies, with all their preparations and in their quick movements. (239) _The sou...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, AND 3. If we were to examine closely the different characters of the nations who have been connected with the people of God, we should perhaps find in e...
THE NOISE OF A WHIP,.... Of a horseman or chariot driver whipping his horses to make speed to Nineveh, and enter into it, so near as to be heard by the inhabitants of it; and is thus represented in or...
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. Ver. 2. _The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels_]...
_The noise of a whip_, &c. These verses are highly poetical; the prophet tells them, that he already hears the sound of the whips driving on the horses, and the rattling of the chariot wheels, &c., of...
the noise of a whip, its sharp crack heard as the horses are urged forward in battle, AND THE NOISE OF THE RATTLING OF THE WHEELS AND OF THE PRANCING HORSES AND OF THE JUMPING CHARIOTS, bounding along...
THE MISERABLE RUIN OF NINEVEH. Jehovah now shows that the cause of Nineveh's destruction is its wickedness, and that for this reason the city is bound to submit to the sentence which has been pronoun...
1-7 When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression....
The French reads this verse with a negative distributive, and so links this and the next verse with the former negative, NAHUM 3:1; thus, The prey departeth not, nor the noise of the whip, nor, &c., i...
Nahum 3:2 noise H6963 whip H7752 noise H6963 rattling H7494 wheels H212 galloping H1725 (H8802) horses H5483 clattering...
Nahum 3:1. _Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;_ Assyria became a great empire through violence, falsehood, and robbery. The soldiery had no respect fo...
CONTENTS: Nineveh reaps what it has sown destruction and violence. CHARACTERS: God, King of Assyria. CONCLUSION: The people that have with their cruelties been a terror and destruction to others, wi...
Nahum 3:1. _Woe to the bloody city._ Nineveh was drunk with blood. She was burdened with the wealth of plundered nations; her feasts and idolatries filled up the measure of her iniquity. Oh how sublim...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:1 Again, Focus on Nineveh: More concerning the Lord’s Coming Judgment. This last major section of the book repeats most of the themes of the previous section (Nahum
CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophet resumes his description of the siege. BLOOD] Drops of blood shed in murder [_Keil_]. LIES] Vain promises of help. DEPART.] Ceases not to plunder. NAHUM 3:2. NOISE] In the...
EXPOSITION NAHUM 3:1 Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping cha...
Isaiah 9:5; Jeremiah 47:3; Job 39:22; Judges 5:22; Nahum 2:3;...