She is empty and void and waste, literally, "emptiness and being emptied out and desolation!". and the heart melteth, in utter discouragement, and the knees smite together, in the terror which cannot control itself, and much pain is in all loins, Isaiah 21:3, and the faces of them all gather blackness, all of them pale with fear. Thus the mighty city would be destroyed with all its rich treasures.
Verse Nahum 2:10. _SHE IS EMPTY, AND VOID, AND WASTE_] The original is strongly emphatic; the words are of the _same sound_; and increase in their _length_ as they point out _great, greater_, and _gre...
SHE IS EMPTY AND VOID AND WASTE - The completeness of her judgment is declared first under that solemn number, Three, and the three words in Hebrew are nearly the same , with the same meaning, only ea...
CHAPTER 2 The Overthrow, Plundering and Destruction Of Nineveh _ 1. The capture of Nineveh announced and described (Nahum 2:1) _ 2. The completeness of the judgment (Nahum 2:11) Nahum 2:1. This gre...
NAHUM 1:11; NAHUM 1:14; NAHUM 2:1; NAHUM 2:3. THE FALL OF NINEVEH. Nahum 1:11.
EMPTY... VOID... WASTE. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew. _bukah umbukah umebullakah._ THE FACES OF THEM ALL, &C. Only here, and in Joel 2:6. The reference is to J...
_NINEVEH WAS PLUNDERED -- NAHUM 2:8-10:_ Nineveh is pictured as a large pool of water. This was true because of the many people that were there. The cry for the people was "Stand, Stand!" Instead the...
THE RUINS OF WAR. Nahum 2:8-13 RV. But Nineveh hath been from old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back. Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil o...
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. SHE IS EMPTY, AND VOID, AND WASTE...
ATTACK AND CONQUEST OF NINEVEH 1. Description of the attack begins, and Nineveh is called upon to face the invader. 'He that breaketh in pieces is come up against thee; Guard the watch, look out upon...
AND THE FACES OF THEM ALL GATHER BLACKNESS. — Better, perhaps, _and all faces withdraw their brightness._ (See Note on Joel 2:6, where the same expression occurs.)...
_[Nahum 2:11]_ בּוּקָ֥ה וּ מְבוּקָ֖ה וּ מְבֻלָּקָ֑ה...
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...
A CRUEL CITY TO BE OVERTHROWN Nahum 2:1-13 This is a prophetic foreview of the overthrow of Nineveh by the Medo-Babylonians. God had used her for the chastisement of His people; now, in turn, she mus...
Having thus announced the verdict, the prophet described the process of vengeance. He declared that the "hammer" had come up against Nineveh, and ironically advised her to prepare. He then detailed th...
(i) She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces (k) of them all gather blackness. (i) That is, Nineveh, and...
_Kettle. In mourning they blacken their face. (Tav. Perse.)_...
After the observations I ventured to make on the preceding verses, I do not think it needful to dissect the several parts of the subject contained in this whole paragraph. If I mistake not, the Lord i...
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 here confirms what the last verse contains; for he shows why he had called the Chaldeans to take away the spoil, — because it was to be so. He did not indeed (as I have already said) comma...
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...
SHE IS EMPTY, AND VOID, AND WASTE,.... The city of Nineveh, empty of inhabitants, being killed, or having fled; and stripped of all its treasures and riches by the enemies; its walls and houses demoli...
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. Ver. 10. _She is empty, and void,...
_Take ye the spoil of silver, of gold_ Here the Babylonians are addressed as if they had just entered the city; and are bid to take the spoil of it, there being none to make any resistance. We read in...
1-10 Nineveh shall not put aside this judgment; there is no counsel or strength against the Lord. God looks upon proud cities, and brings them down. Particular account is given of the terrors wherein...
SHE, Nineveh, taken, and under the proud insultings of the barbarous soldiers, IS EMPTY though once full of all store, yet now she is empty enough, many hands have been employed to spoil her, and void...
Nahum 2:10 empty H950 desolate H4003 waste H1110 (H8794) heart H3820 melts H4549 (H8738) knees H1290 shake...
CONTENTS: The battle in the streets of Nineveh. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God has a quarrel with those who have done violence to His people, and when the measure of their iniquity is filled up, H...
Nahum 2:2. _The excellency of Jacob._ The Vulgate reads as the Hebrew, the pride of Jacob, and the pride of Israel, which the Lord punished by the Assyrians. Now the same just God comes to punish the...
_The shield of His mighty men is made red._ THE DOWNFALL OF NINEVEH, AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN DEMENTS IN REVELATION There are two elements in the Bible, the Divine and the human. G...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 2:1 Focus on Nineveh: The Lord’s Coming Judgment. Nahum’s prediction reads like an eyewitness account of Nineveh being attacked, overrun by the enemy, and plundered....
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 2:10 DESOLATE... RUIN is a description of Nineveh emptied of inhabitants and destroyed by the victorious invaders. HEARTS MELT... PALE. The Assyrians previously had been proud of...
CRITICAL NOTES. NAHUM 2:8. OLD] From antiquity hath been like a pool of water; the confluence of people from all parts, like countless drops; an unbroken empire for 600 years. STAND] Stand is the cry...
EXPOSITION NAHUM 2:1 Part II. THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREE; THE DESTRUCTION OF NINEVEH DESCRIBED....
Now he is describing the siege of Assyria by the Babylonian and Mede confederacy, referring to these men as those that dash in pieces. He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the mu...
Daniel 5:6; Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 13:7; Isaiah 13:8;...