Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Nahum 3:5
Discover — l will strip thee naked, and deal with thee as inhuman soldiers deal with captive women.
Discover — l will strip thee naked, and deal with thee as inhuman soldiers deal with captive women.
Verse 5. _I WILL DISCOVER THY SKIRTS UPON THY FACE_] It was an ancient, though not a laudable custom, to strip prostitutes naked, or throw their clothes over their heads, and expose them to public vie...
BEHOLD I AM AGAINST THEE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS - Jerome: “I will not send an Angel, nor give thy destruction to others; I Myself will come to destroy thee.” Cyril: “She has not to do with man, or w...
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...
NAHUM 3. A FRESH PICTURE OF THE END OF NINEVEH. Nahum 3:1. Woe to that city of blood, full of lies and rapine, where the prey never ceased, nor was any end to the booty! Now nothing is heard in her bu...
SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. [is] the oracle of Jehovah Sabaioth. See note on Nahum 2:13. I WILL DISCOVER. Carrying out the symbol of whoredom for idolatry. Compare Nahum 2:13; Nahum 3:5. I WILL SHEW, &C...
_NINEVEH'S TERRIBLE UNGODLINESS -- NAHUM 3:1-7:_ Nineveh was the capital of crime and evil. It was a city of murder and treachery. It was doomed because of its wickedness. Their practice of preying up...
CAUSE OF THE CARNAGE. Nahum 3:4-7 RV. because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families throug...
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. I WILL DISCOVER THY SKIRTS U...
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...
(4-6) Because of the multitude. — In the idolatry and superstition of Nineveh the prophet finds the cause of her destruction. Perversion of religious instinct is frequently denounced under the same fi...
הִנְנִ֣י אֵלַ֗יִךְ נְאֻם֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות וְ...
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...
The last verse in this passage serves to throw a light upon the whole; and proves that it is the cause of the Church which the Lord is contending for. And if the Reader attends to the whole prophecy o...
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 confirms here what he has said of the fall of Nineveh; but, as it was stated yesterday, he introduces God as the speaker, that his address might be more powerful. God then testifies here t...
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, I [AM] AGAINST THEE, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Because her doings were against him; Nahum 2:13: AND I WILL DISCOVER THY SKIRTS UPON THY FACE; turn up the skirts of her garments over her he...
_Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame._ Ver. 5. _Behold, I am agai...
_Behold, I will discover thy skirts, &c., upon thy face_ Nineveh, as a harlot, had been proud, and appeared beautiful and gay in the gifts of her lovers, but now God would deal with her according to h...
Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, uncover them and throw them up so high that they would reach over her face, AND I WILL SHOW THE NATION...
THE MISERABLE RUIN OF NINEVEH. Jehovah now shows that the cause of Nineveh's destruction is its wickedness, and that for this reason the city is bound to submit to the sentence which has been pronoun...
1-7 When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression....
BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, saith the Lord of hosts: see NAHUM 2:13. I WILL DISCOVER: Nineveh as a harlot had been proud, and appeared beautiful and gay in the gifts of her lovers; but now God will dea...
Nahum 3:5 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 lift H1540 (H8765) skirts H7757 face H6440 show...
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...
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 3:5 BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST YOU. Compare Nahum 2:13; the repetition emphasizes the certainty of Nineveh’s doom....
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:5. DISCOVER] Language suggested by preceding metaphor of an harlot; referring to the custom of stripping captives, male and female, and exposing them to nakedness and insult....
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...
Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:25; Ezekiel 23:29; Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah