Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Nahum 3:9
Ethiopia, &c.— Houbigant renders this passage, The Ethiopians and Egyptians, who are innumerable, were her strength: The Africans and Libyans were her helpers.
Ethiopia, &c.— Houbigant renders this passage, The Ethiopians and Egyptians, who are innumerable, were her strength: The Africans and Libyans were her helpers.
Verse 9. _ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT_ WERE _HER STRENGTH_] The land of _Cush_, not far from _Diospolis_; for it was in Arabia, on the _Red Sea_. _PUT AND LUBIM_] A part of Africa and Libya, which were all wi...
ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT WERE HER STRENGTH - Literally, “Egypt was strength , and Ethiopia, and boundless.” He sets forth first the imperial might of No; then her strength from foreign, subdued power. The c...
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...
Nineveh boasted of her strength, but she was no better placed than No-Amon, with the Nile around her for rampart, the whole strength of Egypt and Ethiopia her defence, and Put and the Libyans as allie...
AND. Some codices, cited in the _Massorah_ (App-30), omit this word "and"; in which case we should render the clause: "Ethiopia strengthened her; Egypt [defended her with countless hosts (or hosts wit...
_NINEVEH COMPARED TO OTHERS -- NAHUM 3:8-11:_ "Art thou better than populous No?" (Nahum 3:8) No is another name for Thebes. Thebes was a notable city in Egypt. The Nile River was its wall of defense....
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...
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. ETHIOPIA - Hebrew, Cush. AND EGYPT - Lower Egypt. Ethiopia is thought at this time to have been mistres...
3:9 Ethiopia (c-1) 'Cush.' infinite; (d-10) Or 'endless.' her (e-16) Lit. 'thy,' but referring here to No-Amon, which is apostrophised....
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...
כּ֥וּשׁ עָצְמָ֛ה וּ מִצְרַ֖יִם וְ אֵ֣ין קֵ֑צֶ
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...
_Ethiopia; Chus, in Arabia, not far from Diospolis._...
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...
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 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...
ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT [WERE] HER STRENGTH,.... That is, the strength, support, protection, and defence of No, whether Alexandria, or Thebes, or Memphis: Egypt was, for these cities were in it, and subjec...
Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Ver. 9. _Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength_] No was the metropolis of Egypt, and knew no end of her p...
_Art thou better than populous No_ Art thou in a better or safer condition; or hast thou more merit than the famous populous city of No? The Hebrew reads, _No-ammon_, the same city which is spoken of...
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...
Ethiopia and Egypt, the countries along the Nile, WERE HER STRENGTH, AND IT WAS INFINITE; PUT AND LUBIM, the countries to the west, along the Mediterranean Sea, WERE THY HELPERS, Thebes itself being a...
THY HELPERS: _ Heb._ in thy help...
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...
It is not very probable that this Ethiopia should be that remote country that lay south of Egypt, though in truth it is possible, and while Egypt was in friendship with No Amon, or Alexandria, the aid...
Nahum 3:9 Ethiopia H3568 Egypt H4714 strength H6109 boundless H369 H7097 Put H6316 Lubim H3864 helpers H5833...
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 3:8 To those who think it is impossible that Nineveh would fall, Nahum reminds them of what had recently happened to the mighty city of Thebes, in Egypt (see Introduction: Author a...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:9 CUSH was the region just south of Egypt. EGYPT refers to military aid coming from northern Egypt. PUT may have been on the north African coastline. While Thebes could count
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:8.] She will share the fate of _No-Amon_, a royal city of Egypt, populous, sacred, and strong (Ezekiel 30:14; Jeremiah 46:25), like Nineveh well situated, protected by waters...
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...
1 Chronicles 1:8; Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 30:5; Ezekiel 38:5; Genesi
Her strength — Furnishing soldiers and warlike assistance. It was infinite — There was no end to their confidence and warlike provisions. Put — Or the Moors, who lie westward of Alexandria. Lubim — Th...