Nahum 2:1
He — The Medes or Chaldeans, that dash Nineveh in pieces. The munition — The forts. Make thy loins strong — Strengthen thyself.... [ Continue Reading ]
He — The Medes or Chaldeans, that dash Nineveh in pieces. The munition — The forts. Make thy loins strong — Strengthen thyself.... [ Continue Reading ]
For — Israel and Jacob were more to God, yet he punished them; much more will he punish Nineveh. Turned — Laid low. The excellency — The wealth, the valiant men, all that Jacob gloried in. Jacob — The two tribes. Israel — The ten tribes. Emptied them — Quite exhausted them. Their vine — branches — D... [ Continue Reading ]
The shield — One part for the whole of the armour, and furniture. Mighty men — Medes or Chaldeans. Red — With the blood of the slain. Torches — Torches were always carried in them. In the day — When he shall muster his armies. Shaken — By axes cutting them down for the war.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the streets — Of Nineveh, when taken. Justle — By reason of their multitude and fury. In the broad ways — Where is most room, and yet scarce enough for them to move. Like torches — What with sparkling fire caused by their horses and chariots, what with the glittering of the polished irons about t... [ Continue Reading ]
He — The king of Babylon. His worthies — Approved officers and commanders. Stumble — Shew such forwardness, that they shall not stand to pick their way. They — The Assyrians to defend, the Chaldeans to assault the walls of Nineveh.... [ Continue Reading ]
The gates — Of the city toward the river. The rivers — Of the Tigris, upon which Nineveh stood. Dissolved — While the Chaldeans besieged Nineveh, a mighty deluge overthrew the walls of Nineveh, by the space of twenty furlongs, through which breach the besiegers made their entrance. Dissolved — As if... [ Continue Reading ]
Huzzab — The queen. The voice of doves — Sighing out their complaints. Upon their breasts — Instead of musical instruments, on which they were used to play, now they only strike their breasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Like a pool — Very populous, like a pool which hath been long breeding fish, and is full of them. Yet — Yet these multitudes shall flee discomfited and terrified. They — The chieftains, and most valiant among the Ninevites.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take — Thus the Chaldeans encourage one another in the plundering of the city.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of the lions — Tyrants and bloody warriors.... [ Continue Reading ]
Did tear — Formerly fell upon his neighbour nations. His lionesses — Queens, concubines, or ladies in the Assyrian court.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will burn her — Nineveh. In the smoke — The city being first plundered, then burnt; these chariots were burnt in that smoke. Thy prey — Cause thee to cease from making a prey any more. Thy messengers — Embassadors or muster — masters. Probably this refers to Rabshaketh who had blasphemed the livin... [ Continue Reading ]