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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ....
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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מִנְּזָרַ֨יִךְ֙ כָּֽ † אַרְבֶּ֔ה וְ
טַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Nahum 3:17 commanders H4502 locusts H697 generals H2951 grasshoppers
H1462 camp H2583 (H8802) hedges H1448 cold H7135 day
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
NAHUM 3:1
Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING
INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....
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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...
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Revelation 9:7...
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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...