Yet, in spite of all her own power and the strength of her allies, was she carried away, she went into captivity, after a conquest by Sargon, Esar-haddon, or Tir-haqua; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top, that is, at the corners, of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, the conquerors dividing them among themselves by lot, as slaves, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Verse Nahum 3:10. _THEY CAST LOTS FOR HER HONOURABLE MEN_] This refers still to the city called _populous No_. And the custom of _casting_ _lots_ among the commanders, for the prisoners which they had...
YET WAS SHE - (also ) carried away, literally, “She also became an exile band,” her people were carried away, with all the barbarities of pagan war. All, through whom she might recover, were destroyed...
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...
Nineveh boasted of her strength, but she was no better placed than No-Amon, with the Nile around her for rampart, the whole strength of Egypt and Ethiopia her defence, and Put and the Libyans as allie...
YET WAS SHE, &C. The cuneiform monuments tell us that Thebes, the old capital of Egypt, was destroyed by Assyria about 663 B.C. Assurbanipal has recorded his conquest. Nahum, writing about 603 B. C, r...
_NINEVEH COMPARED TO OTHERS -- NAHUM 3:8-11:_ "Art thou better than populous No?" (Nahum 3:8) No is another name for Thebes. Thebes was a notable city in Egypt. The Nile River was its wall of defense....
NINEVEH IS NO BETTER. Nahum 3:8-19 RV. Art thou better than No-amon, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? Et...
Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were b...
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...
גַּם ־הִ֗יא לַ † גֹּלָה֙ הָלְכָ֣ה בַ...
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...
_Captivity. It was afterwards re-established and taken by Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) --- Fetters, or stocks. (Haydock)_...
I include the whole of this passage in one view for the sake of shortness, having already extended the Commentary very much beyond the original design. The whole of Nahum's prophecy, if taken literall...
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...
_Yet, _he says, _she departed into captivity a captive; _that is, the inhabitants of Alexandria have been banished, and the city become as it were captive, for its inhabitants were driven here and the...
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...
YET [WAS] SHE CARRIED AWAY, SHE WENT INTO CAPTIVITY,.... Not by Nebuchadnezzar; though this city was afterwards taken, and its inhabitants carried captive, by that monarch, as was foretold, Jeremiah...
Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were...
_Art thou better than populous No_ Art thou in a better or safer condition; or hast thou more merit than the famous populous city of No? The Hebrew reads, _No-ammon_, the same city which is spoken of...
8-19 Strong-holds, even the strongest, are no defence against the judgments of God. They shall be unable to do any thing for themselves. The Chaldeans and Medes would devour the land like canker-worm...
SHE WAS CARRIED AWAY: it is probable this might be about thirty years before; for about A.M. 3207, as Calvisius, or 3277, as Archbishop Usher, Sabacon king of Ethiopia invaded Egypt, took Bocchoris, a...
Nahum 3:10 away H1473 went H1980 (H8804) captivity H7628 children H5768 pieces H7376 (H8792) head H7218 street...
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...
_Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity._ ENVIRONMENTS These were certainly close environments; but whence had they come? From still closer ones, like those of pride and enervating habits...
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
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:8 To those who think it is impossible that Nineveh would fall, Nahum reminds them of what had recently happened to the mighty city of Thebes, in Egypt (see Introduction: Author a...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:10 Despite its strategic advantages, Thebes was conquered by the Assyrians. ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:11. DRUNKEN] with the cup of Divine anger. A refuge from the enemy sought and not found in other nations. NAHUM 3:12. STRONGHOLDS] All the fortifications will be easily taken...
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:8.] She will share the fate of _No-Amon_, a royal city of Egypt, populous, sacred, and strong (Ezekiel 30:14; Jeremiah 46:25), like Nineveh well situated, protected by waters...
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...
2 Kings 8:12; Amos 1:13; Hosea 13:16; Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 20:4;...