George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Nahum 1:5
Made. Septuagint, "shaken." --- Quaked. Hebrew and Septuagint, "risen." (Calmet)
Made. Septuagint, "shaken." --- Quaked. Hebrew and Septuagint, "risen." (Calmet)
THE MOUNTAINS QUAKED AT HIM, AND THE HILLS MELTED - As of their own accord. The words are a renewal of those of Amos Amos 9:13. Inanimate nature is pictured as endowed with the terror, which guilt fee...
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...
THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE, &C. Compare Micah 1:3; Micah 1:4. BURNED. upheaved. WORLD. Hebrew. _tebel_. the world as inhabited....
_GOD IS A PATIENT GOD BUT THERE IS A LIMIT TO HIS PATIENCE -- NAHUM 1:3-5:_ "The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, And will not at all acquit the wicked. The Lord has His way in the whirlwind...
THE EARTH IS BURNED, &C.— _Is made desolate._ Houb....
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...
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. THE EARTH IS BURNED - so Grotius. Rather, 'lifts itself,' i:e.,...
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...
(2-8) God’s character a pledge that the oppressor of His servants shall be destroyed....
IS BURNED. — Better, _heaves. _...
הָרִים֙ רָעֲשׁ֣וּ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ וְ הַ גְּבָעֹ֖ות...
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...
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 continues still on the same subject, — that when God ascended his tribunal and appeared as the Judge of the world, he would not only shake all the elements, but would also constrain them to chan...
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 MOUNTAINS QUAKE AT HIM, AND THE HILLS MELT,.... As Sinai of old did, when the Lord descended on it, Exodus 19:18. Mountains figuratively signify kings and princes; and hills large countries, as Ja...
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Ver. 5. _The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt_] Though v...
_He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry_ The rivers and the sea itself are dried up at his rebuke, as the Red sea and Jordan were of old; and the most pleasant and fruitful countries, such as Bashan,...
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...
The mountains quake at Him, Cf Amos 8:8, AND THE HILLS MELT, as at the time of terrible earthquakes, AND THE EARTH IS BURNED AT HIS PRESENCE, YEA, THE WORLD, AND ALL THAT DWELL THEREIN, both men and t...
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...
THE MOUNTAINS; the more known mountains of that country were mentioned NAHUM 1:4, now the prophet doth extend his speech to all mountains, how great soever, and how fast soever their foundations are l...
Nahum 1:5 mountains H2022 quake H7493 (H8804) hills H1389 melt H4127 (H8712) earth H776 heaves H5375 ...
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...
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...
_He rebuketh the sea._ GOD’S POWER Here is a description of God’s power unrivalled in its sublimity and soul-stirring force. Power belongeth unto God. It is absolute, inexhaustible, ever and everywh...
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,...
NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 1:4 REBUKES THE SEA... DRIES UP... RIVERS recalls the exodus from Egypt (Exodus 14:1) and the conquest of Canaan ...
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 3:7; 2 Samuel 22:8; Habakkuk 3:10; Isaiah 2:12; Isaiah 64:1;