Art thou better than populous (d) No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
(d) Meaning Alexandria, which had a compact of peace with so many nations, and yet was now destroyed.
Verse 8. _ART THOU BETTER THAN POPULOUS NO_] No-Ammon, or _Diospolis_, in the _Delta_, on one branch of the Nile. This is supposed to be the city mentioned by _Nahum_; and which had been lately destro...
ART THOU BETTER - More populous or more powerful, “than the populous No?” rather than No-Ammon, so called from the idol Ammon, worshiped there. No-Ammon, (or, as it is deciphered in the Cuneiform Insc...
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...
BETTER. situated better. POPULOUS NO. _N'o-'Amon. 'Amon_ is not. Hebrew word meaning "multitude", but an Egyptian word meaning the Egyptian god "Amon". _No =_ the Egyptian _net_, meaning the city; now...
_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....
ART THOU BETTER THAN POPULOUS NO?— _No-ammon._ Houbigant. The destruction of No-ammon, or Diospolis in Egypt, which Nahum mentions as a late transaction, would greatly assist in fixing the time of his...
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...
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? ART THOU BETTER THAN POPULOUS NO -...
3:8 No-Amon, (a-5) i.e. the god Amon of No (Thebes) in Egypt. rivers, (b-11) Or 'canals.'...
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...
POPULOUS NO. — Better, _No Amon._ Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt, was known to the Hebrews as “No Amon” (perhaps, “house of the god Amon;” similarly the Greeks called it Διόσπολις). Assyria hersel...
הֲ תֵֽיטְבִי֙ מִ נֹּ֣א אָמֹ֔ון הַ יֹּֽשְׁבָה֙...
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...
Populous Alexandria. No-Amon. A populous city of Egypt, destroyed by the Chaldeans, and afterwards rebuilt by Alexander, and called Alexandria. Others suppose No-Amon to be the same as Diospolis. (Cha...
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 Prophet, in order to gain credit to his prophecy, produces here the ensample of Alexandria. It is indeed certain, from many testimonies of Scripture, that Alexandria is called No, which was a very...
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...
ART THOU BETTER THAN POPULOUS NO,.... Or No Amon, a city in Egypt so called, not because the kings of Egypt were nursed and brought up there, as Jarchi and Abarbinel; see Proverbs 8:30 but from Ham th...
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea? Ver. 8. _Art thou better tha...
_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...
Art thou better than populous No, that is, No-Amon, Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt, THAT WAS SITUATE AMONG THE RIVERS, THAT HAD THE WATERS ROUND ABOUT IT, namely, in the great irrigation canals, W...
POPULOUS NO,: Or, nourishing. _Heb._ No Amon...
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...
ART THOU, O Nineveh, BETTER THAN POPULOUS NO? it is generally supposed that this was what we now call Alexandria, a city full of people, and as full of luxury and uncleanness, the sins whereof had bro...
Nahum 3:8 better H3190 (H8686) No H4996 Amon H527 (H8675) H528 situated H3427 (H8802) River...
NO, Or, No-Amon. (Jeremiah 46:25); (Ezekiel 30:15); (Ezekiel 30:16)....
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...
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...
Amos 6:2; Ezekiel 30:14; Ezekiel 31:2; Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 19:5;...
Thou — O Nineveh. No — It is supposed this was what we now called Alexandria. Art thou greater, stronger, and wiser? Yet all her power was broken, her riches spoiled, and her glory buried in ruins. Ra...