Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! — Better, O bloody city! She is altogether deceit, filled with crime: she ceases not from plunder.
Woe to the bloody city! — Better, O bloody city! She is altogether deceit, filled with crime: she ceases not from plunder.
CHAPTER III _The prophet denounces a wo against Nineveh for her perfidy and_ _violence. He musters up before our eyes the number of her_ _chariots and cavalry; points to her burnished arms, and to...
WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY - Literally, “city of bloods” , i. e., of manifold bloodshedding, built and founded in blood Habakkuk 2:12; Jeremiah 22:13, as the prosperity of the world ever is. Murder, oppre...
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...
BLOODY CITY. city of great bloodshed (Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 24:6; Ezekiel 24:9;...
_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...
WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! &C.— _Woe to the bloody city, which is wholly perfidious and full of cruelty; whence rapines depart not.—_Ver. 2. _Lo! the sound of the whip is at hand, the sound of the rattli...
CHAPTER XIV THE EPITAPH OF NINEVEH WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY. Nahum 3:1-3 RV. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. The noise of the whip, and the noise of...
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! - literally, city of blood-namely, shed by Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to be s...
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...
הֹ֖וי עִ֣יר דָּמִ֑ים כֻּלָּ֗הּ כַּ֤חַשׁ פֶּ֨רֶק֙...
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...
Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; (a) the prey departeth not; (a) It never ceases to spoil and rob....
Blood. Nemrod established his power by shedding blood, Genesis x. Ninus, who built Ninive, and his successors were also bloody. After 1200 years the empire decayed under Sardanapalus, as historians ag...
CONTENTS We have the continuation of the same subject, as in the two preceding Chapter s. Under the character of Nineveh, the Lord is declaring the final destruction of the Church's enemies....
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...
_NINEVEH’S DIRGE_ ‘Woe to the bloody city!’ Nahum 3:1 I. WE NOW COME TO STANZAS OF TRIUMPH OVER THE GREAT CITY’S FALL.—For convenience and clearness we may take the closing verses of chapter 2 (i.e...
The Prophet, as I have said, more clearly expresses here the reason why the vengeance of God would be so severe on the Ninevites, — because they had wholly given themselves up to barbarous cruelty; an...
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...
WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY,.... Nineveh, in which many murders were daily committed; innocent blood shed; the lives of men taken away, under the colour of justice, by false witnesses, and other unlawful m...
Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not; Ver. 1. _Woe to the bloody city_] Nineveh, that delighteth in war, which one well calleth the slaughter house o...
_Wo to the bloody city_ Here God shows the cause of his bringing destruction on Nineveh, and overthrowing the Assyrian empire. And first, it is declared, that Nineveh was a city in which acts of cruel...
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...
Woe to the bloody city, or, "O city of blood, of blood-guiltiness!". IT IS ALL FULL OF LIES AND ROBBERY, so that deceit, violence, and extortion were the order of the day; THE PREY DEPARTETH NOT, robb...
BLOODY CITY: _ Heb._ city of bloods...
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....
NAHUM CHAPTER 3 The miserable ruin of Nineveh. WOE! a comprehensive threat of many and great calamities coming. TO THE BLOODY CITY; Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrian kingdom: see NAHUM 1:1. IT I...
Nahum 3:1 Woe H1945 bloody H1818 city H5892 full H4392 lies H3585 robbery H6563 victim H2964 departs H4185 ...
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
CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophet resumes his description of the siege. BLOOD] Drops of blood shed in murder [_Keil_]. LIES] Vain promises of help. DEPART.] Ceases not to plunder. NAHUM 3:2. NOISE] In the...
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 22:2; Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 24:6; Habakkuk 2:12; Hosea 4:2;...
The prey — Extortion and rapine....