What does Nahum 3:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The horseman lifteth up both the brightb sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:"
THE HORSEMAN LIFTETH UP - Rather, “leading up : the flash of the sword, and the lightning of the spear.” Thus, there are, in all, seven inroads, seven signs, before the complete destruction of Nineveh...
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 b...
BRIGHT. gleaming. GLITTERING. flashing. THEY: i.e. the slayers. Hebrew text margin, with some codices, and four early printed editions, reads "so that they stumble", &c. UPON. over....
_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...
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon th...
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...
THE HORSEMAN LIFTETH UP. — Better, _There is the rearing horseman and the flaming sword, and the glittering lance, and a multitude of wounded, and a mass of corpses_......
פָּרָ֣שׁ מַעֲלֶ֗ה וְ לַ֤הַב חֶ֨רֶב֙ וּ בְרַ֣ק חֲנִ֔ית וְ רֹ֥ב חָלָ֖ל וְ כֹ֣בֶד פָּ֑גֶר...
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 a...
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...
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...
As to the words, some interpreters connect what we have rendered, _the horseman makes to ascend, _with what follows, that is, he makes to _ascend the flame of the sword and the lightning of the spear...
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...
THE HORSEMAN LIFTETH UP BOTH THE BRIGHT SWORD AND THE GLITTERING SPEAR,.... Or, "the flame of the sword and the glittering spear" w; he rides with a drawn sword, which, being brandished to and fro, lo...
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they stumble up...
_The noise of a whip_, &c. These verses are highly poetical; the prophet tells them, that he already hears the sound of the whips driving on the horses, and the rattling of the chariot wheels, &c., 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...
THE BRIGHT SWORD, AND THE GLITTERING SPEAR: _ Heb._ the flame of the sword and the lightning of the spear...
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....
THE HORSEMAN; the Chaldean and Mede, or their confederates in the war. LIFTETH UP; hath his sword not only drawn, but in a posture ever ready to smite, wound, or kill. The bright sword: these warriors...
Nahum 3:3 Horsemen H6571 charge H5927 (H8688) bright H3851 sword H2719 glittering H1300 spear H2595 multitude H7230 slain H2491 great H3514 bodies H6297 Countless H7097 stumble H3782 (H8804) (H8675) H...
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 2:1). However...
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. NAHUM 3:1 § 1. _The prophet specifies the crimes which have brought this ruin upon Nin...
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 31:3; Ezekiel 39:4; Genesis 3:24; Habakkuk 3:11; Isaiah 37:36; Nahum 2:4...
The horsemen — The Chaldeans and their confederates....