For while, or though, they be folden together as thorns, braided together or entangled, and while they are drunken as drunkards, though they are drowned in their carousing, in their wine, so that it might seem that fire would not be able to reach them or to affect them seriously, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. The comparison shows the pride and the boldness which the Assyrians possessed, also in their idea that they were invincible.
Verse Nahum 1:10. _WHILE_ THEY BE _FOLDEN TOGETHER_] However united their counsels may be, they shall be as _drunken men_-perplexed and unsteady in all their resolutions; and before God's judgments th...
FOR WHILE THEY BE LEIDEN TOGETHER AS THORNS - that is, as confused, intertwined, sharp, piercing, hard to be touched, rending and tearing whosoever would interfere with its tangled ways, and seemingly...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1 The Purpose of God in Dealing with the Assyrian Oppressor _ 1. The superscription (Nahum 1:1) _ 2. Jehovah's majesty in judgment (Nahum 1:2) 3. His people comfo...
THE AVENGING WRATH OF YAHWEH. Yahweh is a jealous and vengeful God sensitive to the honour of Himself and His people who marcheth through whirlwind and storm to save them from the enemy. Before His pr...
FOLDEN. entangled. THORNS. The emblem of hostile armies (Isaiah 10:17; Isaiah 27:4)....
_GOD IS A GOD THAT EXPECTS US TO KEEP OUR PROMISES -- NAHUM 1:10-15:_ During the days of Jonah the people of Nineveh promised to leave sin and serve God. They did not keep their promises and the pay w...
FOR WHILE THEY BE FOLDEN, &C.— _For they who sit round their cups, and are drunken as drunkards, shall be,_ &c. Houbigant. Diodorus relates, that while all the Assyrian army were feasting for their fo...
THE UTTER ANNIHILATION OF NINEVEH! Nahum 1:9-13 RV. What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time. For entangled like thorns, and drunken as...
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. FOR WHILE THEY BE FOLDEN TOGETHER AS THORNS, [ `ad (H5704)] - lite...
GOD'S VENGEANCE ON HIS PEOPLE'S ENEMIES. DELIVERANCE FOR JUDAH 1, 2. Superscription: 'Oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of prophesying of Nahum the Elkoshite.' A. theological introduct...
NAHUM, *PROPHET OF COMFORT NAHUM _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Comfort them; comfort my people, says the *LORD (Isaiah 40:1). (‘Comfort’ means ‘stop them suffering and make them strong’. ‘*LORD’ is a speci...
(9-15) The first revelation of God’s judgment, by the awful overthrow of Sennacherib’s invading army in the reign of Hezekiah....
FOR WHILE. — Better, _For they shall be even as bundles of thorn fagots, and even while steeped in their drink they shall be burnt up like stubble fully dry._ Dry thorn cuttings were commonly used as...
כִּ֚י עַד ־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּ כְ סָבְאָ֖ם
THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD Nahum 1:1 THE prophet Nahum, as we have seen, arose probably in Judah, if not about the same time as Zephaniah and Jeremiah, then a few years later. Whether he prophesied be...
GOD'S GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUS ANGER Nahum 1:1-15 The native city of Nahum was Elkosh, near the Lake of Galilee. The name Capernaum means literally “the village of Nahum.” He lived about 150 years afte...
The prophet preceded the announcement of a verdict of vengeance by a section dealing wholly with Jehovah Himself. As to His character, He is a God of vengeance, and yet the central fact of His nature...
For while [they be] folden together [as] (l) thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (l) Though the Assyrians think themselves like thorns that...
_Dry. The Assyrians, feasting in the hopes that they would speedily become masters of Jerusalem, were cut off in one night. (Worthington) --- God's enemies cannot escape; as when a thorn bush has take...
It is very evident that the Prophet's whole discourse is directed to warn the Ninevites, who thought of destroying Israel, that they should thereby only hasten their own destruction. And the event in...
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...
He goes on with this same subject, — that Gods when he pleases to exercise his power, can, with no difficulty, consume his enemies: for the similitude, which is here added, means this, — that nothing...
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...
FOR WHILE [THEY BE] FOLDEN TOGETHER [AS] THORNS,.... Like them, useless and unprofitable, harmful and pernicious, fit only for burning, and, being bundled together, are prepared for it; and which is n...
For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Ver. 10. _For while they be folden together as thorns_] And so...
_What do ye imagine against the Lord?_ Having declared the dreadfulness of God's power and anger against the wicked, his goodness toward his people, and denounced future destruction against the Ninevi...
9-15 There is a great deal plotted against the Lord by the gates of hell, and against his kingdom in the world; but it will prove in vain. With some sinners God makes quick despatch; and one way or o...
This gives us account how this desolation shall be effected. WHILE THEY BE FOLDED TOGETHER AS THORNS; they should be like thorns easily burnt, and like thorns folden together, which burn together, and...
Nahum 1:10 tangled H5440 (H8803) thorns H5518 drunken H5433 (H8803) drunkards H5435 devoured H398 (H8795) stubble...
GOD'S PURPOSE TOWARDS NINEVEH (NAHUM 1:9 A). God purposes to destroy Nineveh once and for all. Nahum 1:9 ‘What do you imagine against YHWH? He will make a full end. Affliction will not rise up the...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's holiness and power. Nineveh's destruction forecasted. CHARACTERS: God, Nahum. CONCLUSION: The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against His enemies, and His favor and mercy ar...
Nahum 1:1. _The burden of Nineveh Nahum the Elkoshite._ This refers to a village of Galilee, the native place of Nahum, who in point of talent was among the first of the Hebrew prophets. Yet nothing o...
_What do ye imagine against the Lord?_ SIN I. The essence of sin is suggested. It is hostility to God. It is opposition to the laws, purposes, Spirit of God. It involves-- 1. The basest of ingratit...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 1:9 The Lord’s Coming Judgment on Nineveh and Deliverance of Judah. In these verses Nahum alternates between the Lord’s coming judgment on Nineveh and his gracious deliverance of J...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 1:10 ENTANGLED THORNS can be thrown all at once into the fire, just as the Assyrians as a whole will be wiped out. LIKE DRUNKARDS, the Assyrians will be unable to defend themselves...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 1:9.] The city must be destroyed and its inhabitants perish. IMAGINE] By means of defence to ward off danger. SECOND] time from Assyria (cf. Isaiah 51:17; 2 Samuel 20:10)....
EXPOSITION NAHUM 1:1 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON NINEVEH DECREED BY GOD. NAHUM 1:1 § 1. _The heading of the book. _The book has a double ti
Tonight, let's turn now to the book of Nahum. Again, just three Chapter s long and they're even short Chapter s. So, we should have a relatively short Bible study tonight in Nahum. He introduces the s...
1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Samuel 13:28;...
As thorns — They shall be like thorns easily burnt, and like thorns folded together which burn together, and help to destroy each other. As drunkards — As men drunken, and unable to help themselves, s...