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Nahum 1:9-15

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 Judah.

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See also Nahum 1:9-15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 9. _AFFLICTION SHALL NOT RISE UP THE SECOND TIME._] There shall be no need to _repeat the judgment_; with _one blow_ God will make a full end of the business....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The prophet had in few words summed up the close of Nineveh; he now upbraids them with the sin, which should bring it upon them, and foretells the destruction of Sennacherib. Nineveh had, before this,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE AVENGING WRATH OF YAHWEH. Yahweh is a jealous and vengeful God sensitive to the honour of Himself and His people who marcheth through whirlwind and storm to save them from the enemy. Before His pr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IMAGINE. devise. Compare Psalms 2:1. AFFLICTION. distress, or trouble; Hebrew. _zarar_, as in Nahum 1:7, i.e. the trouble that now threatens Nineveh. THE SECOND TIME. Referring to the rising up after...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _GOD IS SO POWERFUL THAT SINNERS CANNOT STAND BEFORE HIM -- NAHUM 1:6-9:_ Nahum asked, "Who can stand before His indignation? And who can endure the fierceness of His anger? His fury is poured out lik...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHAT DO YE IMAGINE— _Why do ye take counsel?_ &c. The prophet says this to the Ninevites, who seemed willing to repair the loss of Senacherib's army, and to invade Judaea; and it is most likely, says...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE UTTER ANNIHILATION OF NINEVEH! Nahum 1:9-13 RV. What do ye devise against Jehovah? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise up the second time. For entangled like thorns, and drunken as...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. WHAT DO YE IMAGINE AGAINST THE LORD? Abrupt address to the Assyrians. How mad is your a...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:9 end. (b-12) See Zephaniah 1:18 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AFFLICTION — _i.e.,_ Nineveh’s affliction of Israel, the same Hebrew word being used in Nahum 1:7 to denote Israel’s “trouble” or “affliction” proceeding from Nineveh. (See also Nahum 1:12.) Nineveh s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (9-15) The first revelation of God’s judgment, by the awful overthrow of Sennacherib’s invading army in the reign of Hezekiah....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־תְּחַשְּׁבוּן֙ אֶל ־יְהוָ֔ה כָּלָ֖ה ה֣וּא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    What do ye (k) imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. (k) He shows that the undertakings of the Assyrians against Judah and the Church were...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Affliction. Septuagint add, "for the same thing, or together." (Haydock) --- :Many hence infer, that those who have been slain by God, like the Sodomites, &c., will not be condemned to hell. (Origen,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is very evident that the Prophet's whole discourse is directed to warn the Ninevites, who thought of destroying Israel, that they should thereby only hasten their own destruction. And the event in...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Some interpreters so consider this verse also, as though the Prophet had said, that the calamity of the chosen people would not be a destruction, as God would observe some moderation and keep within c...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHAT DO YE IMAGINE AGAINST THE LORD?.... O ye Ninevites or Assyrians; do you think you can frustrate the designs of the Lord, resist his power, and hinder him from executing what he has threatened and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. Ver. 9. _What do ye imagine against the Lord?_] Because against his people. So Psalms 62:...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _What do ye imagine against the Lord?_ Having declared the dreadfulness of God's power and anger against the wicked, his goodness toward his people, and denounced future destruction against the Ninevi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DIVINE COUNSEL CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT UPON NINEVEH. God, who is at the same time the God of the covenant and the almighty Sovereign of the universe, states that He has fully decided to bring abo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    What do ye imagine against the Lord? Did the people of Judah think that Jehovah was not able to carry out His threat against Nineveh?. HE WILL MAKE AN UTTER END; AFFLICTION SHALL NOT RISE UP THE SECON...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Having declared the dreadfulness of God's power and anger against the wicked, his goodness towards his people, and denounced future destruction against the Ninevites and Assyrians, he doth now expostu...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 1:9 conspire H2803 (H8762) LORD H3068 make H6213 (H8802) end H3617 Affliction H6869 up H6965 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S PURPOSE TOWARDS NINEVEH (NAHUM 1:9 A). God purposes to destroy Nineveh once and for all. Nahum 1:9 ‘What do you imagine against YHWH? He will make a full end. Affliction will not rise up the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What do ye imagine against the Lord?_ SIN I. The essence of sin is suggested. It is hostility to God. It is opposition to the laws, purposes, Spirit of God. It involves-- 1. The basest of ingratit...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 1:9.] The city must be destroyed and its inhabitants perish. IMAGINE] By means of defence to ward off danger. SECOND] time from Assyria (cf. Isaiah 51:17; 2 Samuel 20:10)....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 26:8; 1 Samuel 3:12; 2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Samuel 20:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Against the Lord — What you imagine or design against his people, ye design against him? Make an utter end — He will bring you to utter desolation....

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