Thy crowned, the vassal princes, are as the locusts, and thy captains, the commanders of her armies, as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, too chilled to use their wings; but when the sun ariseth, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are. In a similar way the Assyrian army would vanish from sight; it would not be in evidence to withstand the invaders.
Verse Nahum 3:17. _THY CROWNED_ ARE _AS THE LOCUSTS_] Thou hast numerous _princes_ and numerous _commanders_. _WHICH CAMP IN THE HEDGES IN THE COLD DAY_] The locusts are said to _lie in shelter_ abo...
THY CROWNED ARE AS THE LOCUST, AND THY CAPTAINS AS THE GREAT LOCUSTS - What he had said summarily under metaphor, the prophet expands in a likeness. “The crowned” are probably the subordinate princes,...
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...
Even so Nineveh shall be made drunk with the cup of God's wrath, and faint and staggering shall seek refuge from the enemy. Her outer fortresses shall fall like first-ripe figs (Isaiah 28:4 *) into th...
CROWNED. mercenary crowds. Hebrew. _minzarim._ Occurs only here. See Fuerst, _Lex.,_ p. 832. CAPTAINS. muster-masters, or marshals. Hebrew. _tiphsar._ Occurs only here, and Jeremiah 51:27. Like the A...
_NINEVEH'S LEADERS ARE WEAK -- NAHUM 3:16-19:_ These verses describe the utter defeat of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. There is neither the possibility that the nation might be spared or restored....
THEIR PLACE IS NOT KNOWN— What probability was there, that the capital city of a great kingdom, a city which was sixty miles in compass, a city which contained so many thousand inhabitants, a city whi...
THY CROWNED— _Thy princes._ The author of the _Observations,_ in order to explain the phrase. _Which camp in the hedges in the cold day,_ remarks, that the locusts in 1724 and 1725, which in the easte...
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...
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they...
3:17 grasshoppers, (h-14) Heb. _ gob gobai_ , lit. 'grasshopper of grasshoppers,' -- probably a species of locust which issues from the ground when hatched; not as Exodus 10:13 ....
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...
CANKERWORM.. GRASSHOPPER] species of locusts. 16-19. Prosperity and pride have been 'the cankerworm that spoileth,' so that in the great crisis there is no power of resistance; it is a mortal wound....
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...
THY CROWNED. — The subordinate kings who represent the Assyrian empire in her tributary provinces. CAPTAINS. — _Taphs_’_rîm,_ an Assyrian term denoting some high military office. The sudden disappeara...
מִנְּזָרַ֨יִךְ֙ כָּֽ † אַרְבֶּ֔ה וְ טַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּ...
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...
_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...
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...
_And thy princes are as locusts: _this refers to the wicked doings, by which they laid waste almost the whole earth. As then the locusts and chafers, wherever they come, consume every kind of food, de...
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...
THY CROWNED MEN [ARE] AS THE LOCUSTS,.... Tributary kings, and hired officers, as some think, who might be distinguished by what they wore on their heads; or their own princes and nobles, who wore cor...
Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where th...
_Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars _ Thou hast drawn more merchants to thee than there are stars in the heavens. This is a hyperbolical expression, to signify the great number of them...
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...
THY CROWNED; thy rich and wealthy citizens, or thy confederate kings and princes, or thy tributary princes; THY CAPTAINS; hired, or homeborn, rather the former, commanders and officers; for number and...
Nahum 3:17 commanders H4502 locusts H697 generals H2951 grasshoppers H1462 camp H2583 (H8802) hedges H1448 cold H7135 day
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...
_Which camp in the hedges in the cold day._ LOCUSTS AFFECTED BY THE COLD Paxton and others have remarked that there is much difficulty in this passage; but to anyone who has attentively watched the h...
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 3:17 Like swarms of GRASSHOPPERS or LOCUSTS that quickly FLY AWAY and disappear, some of the leading men of Nineveh will flee when the enemy takes the city....
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:14. DRAW] for a long-continued siege, improve fortifications, put the kiln in order for burning bricks. NAHUM 3:15. MAKE] Multiply thyself, like the largest and most formida...
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...
Revelation 9:7...
Thy crowned — Thy confederate kings and princes. Captains — Commanders and officers are for number, like locusts and grasshoppers; but 'tis all for shew, not for help. In the cool day — While the seas...