Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Nahum 1:15
Keep — Be careful to serve God. Thy vows — Made in thy distress. The wicked — That wicked oppressor, Sennacherib.
Keep — Be careful to serve God. Thy vows — Made in thy distress. The wicked — That wicked oppressor, Sennacherib.
Verse Nahum 1:15. _BEHOLD UPON THE MOUNTAINS_] Borrowed probably from Isaiah 52:7, but applied here to the _messengers_ who brought the _good tidings_ of the _destruction of_ _Nineveh_. Judah might t...
BEHOLD UPON THE MOUNTAINS, THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS, THAT PUBLISHETH PEACE - From mountain-top to mountain-top by beacon-fires they spread the glad tidings. Suddenly the deliverance...
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...
NAHUM 1:12 F., NAHUM 1:15; NAHUM 2:2. COMFORT FOR JUDAH. Now that the days of Yahweh's contention with His people are over, He will afflict them no more, but will break the yoke of the enemy from off...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6), for emphasis, calling attention to the reference to Isaiah 52:7, the the hypotheticalsecond Isaiah, 100 years before he is supposed by modern critics to...
_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...
DISCOURSE: 1220 THE PROPER IMPROVEMENT OF GOD’S MERCIES [Note: Thanksgiving Sermon for peace, in May 1802.] Nahum 1:15. _Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that pub...
DESTRUCTION OF FALSE GODS AND VILE MEN. Nahum 1:14-15 RV. And Jehovah hath given commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown; out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven i...
1:15 (g-0) In the Hebrew, ch. 2 begins here. one (h-26) Lit. 'Belial.'...
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....
BEHOLD UPON THE MOUNTAINS. — It is not plain why this verse has been made the first of Nahum 3 in the Hebrew. It is evidently the finale of the proclamation against the Assyrian invader, and rightly s...
_[Nahum 2:1]_ הִנֵּ֨ה עַל ־הֶ הָרִ֜ים רַגְלֵ֤י...
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...
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth (p) peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he i...
Peace. Sentinels were established on the hills. --- Festivals. St. Jerome quotes the Book of Paralipomenon as saying (Calmet) that the Jews could not observe the Passover in the first month. But they...
Here is the blessed verse which throws light upon the whole Chapter, and fully explains the whole. This shows that the Prophet was not speaking of the men of Nineveh, or the Babylon of his day; but th...
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 again teaches us, that whatever he prophesied respecting the destruction of the city Nineveh, was for this end, — that God, by this remarkable evidence, might show that he had a care for h...
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...
BEHOLD UPON THE MOUNTAINS,.... Of the land of Israel, as the Targum; or those about Jerusalem: THE FEET OF HIM THAT BRINGETH GOOD TIDINGS; see how they come one after another with the news of the hav...
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is ut...
_Behold upon the mountains_ Which surrounded Jerusalem; _the feet of him_ Of the messenger; _that bringeth good tidings_ Tidings that Nineveh is destroyed; _that publisheth peace_ Deliverance from the...
KEEP: _ Heb._ feast WICKED: _ Heb._ Belial...
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...
BEHOLD: as this speaks some unexpected thing, so it calls for our heeding and minding of it. UPON THE MOUNTAINS; over which he must needs come that either came from the Assyrian camp, where the miracu...
Nahum 1:15 mountains H2022 feet H7272 tidings H1319 (H8764) proclaims H8085 (H8688) peace H7965 Judah H3063 keep...
THE GLAD NEWS IS BROUGHT TO GOD'S PEOPLE (NAHUM 1:15) In words similar to Isaiah 52:7, Nahum declares the end of Nineveh. A messenger is on the way with the good news of peace. Judah can now worship f...
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...
_Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings._ THREE THINGS WORTHY OF NOTE I. Peace proclaimed. Glorious to the ears of the men of Jerusalem must have been the intelligence t...
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 1:15 Nahum addresses Judah again, as in vv. Nahum 1:12. UPON THE MOUNTAINS, a messenger brings the GOOD NEWS of Nineveh’s fall
CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 1:12.] Repeat the truths of Nahum 1:9. Good to Judah, and evil to Assyria, predicted. QUIET] In tranquil security; or _complete_ with unbroken ranks and number, with everything...
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...
Acts 10:36; Isaiah 29:7; Isaiah 29:8; Isaiah 37:36; Isaiah 40:10;...