Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Nahum 1:2-8
(2-8) God’s character a pledge that the oppressor of His servants shall be destroyed.
(2-8) God’s character a pledge that the oppressor of His servants shall be destroyed.
Verse Nahum 1:2. _GOD IS JEALOUS_] For his own glory. _AND - REVENGETH_] His justice; by the destruction of his enemies. _AND_ IS _FURIOUS_] So powerful in the manifestations of his judgments, that...
GOD IS JEALOUS AND THE LORD REVENGETH - Rather (as the English margin) God “very jealous and avenging is the Lord.” The Name of God, יהוה (_YHVH_), “He who Is,” the Unchangeable, is thrice repeated, a...
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...
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...
GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. JEALOUS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:24). App-92. See the Structure (book comments for Nahum), and note the subjects of "A" and "A"; "B" and "B"; "C" an...
_GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD -- NAHUM 1:1-2:_ God is pictured both as a jealous God and as an avenger against wrong doers. "God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; The Lord will take vengeance on His adversari...
DISCOURSE: 1218 GOD A REVENGER OF SIN Nahum 1:2; Nahum 1:6. _God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserv...
GOD IS JEALOUS, &C.— This and the following verses, to the eighth, are a preamble, like that of many others in the Prophets, to prepare the mind of the reader, and to impress upon him sentiments of re...
THE COMING OF THE LORD OF JUDGEMENT. Nahum 1:2-8 RV. Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. Jehovah is slow to ange...
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. JEALOUS. In this there is sternn...
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...
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...
אֵ֣ל קַנֹּ֤וא וְ נֹקֵם֙ יְהוָ֔ה נֹקֵ֥ם יְהוָ֖
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...
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...
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...
God [is] (d) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and (e) [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies. (d) Meaning, of his...
_The Lord. The six following verses (Haydock) tend to excite attention. (Calmet)_...
The Prophet opens his sermon with the most striking text, such as the Lord himself opened his sermon with, when he preached before Moses. See Exodus 34:1. It were to weaken the words of this solemn an...
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...
Nahum begins with the nature of God, that what he afterwards subjoins respecting the destruction of Nineveh might be more weighty, and produce a greater impression on the hearers. The preface is gener...
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...
GOD [IS] JEALOUS, AND THE LORD REVENGETH,.... He is jealous of his own honour and glory, and for his own worship and ordinances; and will not give his glory to another, nor his praise to graven images...
God [is] jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies. Ver. 2. _God is jealous_] _S...
_God is jealous_ For his own glory; _and the Lord revengeth _ Or rather, _avengeth_, namely, the cause, or ill treatment, of his people, as being the Supreme Governor, who, by office, is bound to deli...
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...
God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, or, "A God jealous and taking vengeance is Jehovah," as He had stated of old, Exodus 20:5. THE LORD REVENGETH AND IS FURIOUS, literally, "An Avenger is Jehovah...
GOD IS JELOUS, AND THE LORD REVENGETH: Or, the Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger, etc. FURIOUS: _ Heb._ that hath fury...
1-8 About a hundred years before, at Jonah's preaching, the Ninevites repented, and were spared, yet, soon after, they became worse than ever. Nineveh knows not that God who contends with her, but is...
OLBHeb; GOD; the mighty God, so the French version, and the Hebrew la implieth it. IS JEALOUS; his love is fervent for his people, his displeasure hot against his and their enemies, whose idolatries h...
Nahum 1:2 God H410 jealous H7072 LORD H3068 avenges H5358 (H8802) LORD H3068 avenges H5358 (H8802) furious...
THE MIGHT AND CHARACTER OF GOD (NAHUM 1:2). The prophecy begins with an awesome and magnificent picture of the might and character of God. Nahum 1:2 ‘YHWH is a jealous God and avenges. YHWH avenges...
GOD IS JEALOUS The great ethical lesson of Nahum is that the character of God makes Him not only "slow to anger," and "a stronghold to them that trust Him," but also one who "will not at all acquit t...
Nahum 1:2 I. There are many terms applied to God in Scripture, which seem to anthropomorphize His character: The "angry" God; the "repenting" God; the "foreseeing" God. Now, whenever such terms are us...
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...
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...
_God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth._ THE JEALOUS GOD There is in man a selfishness that is Divine. It is a singular fact, in our moral constitution, that often the tenderest feelings of our natu...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 1:2 A Psalm Descriptively Praising the Lord. These verses praise God as he has been and will be throughout world history. It presents God’s attitude toward, and action relating to,...
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
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...
2 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 32:34; Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:41;...
Jealous — For his own glory. Revengeth — As supreme governor, who by office is bound to right the oppressed, and to punish the oppressor....
Does God get angry? PROBLEM: Nahum declares that God “avenges and is furious.” Indeed, God is often represented as being angry in the Bible (cf. Isaiah 26:20; Jeremiah 4:8). At the same time, the Bibl...