George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Nahum 3:14
Water. This was a necessary precaution, 2 Paralipomenon xxxii. 3. --- Brick, to repair the breaches.
Water. This was a necessary precaution, 2 Paralipomenon xxxii. 3. --- Brick, to repair the breaches.
Verse Nahum 3:14. _DRAW THEE WATERS FOR THE SIEGE_] The Tigris ran near to Nineveh, and here they are exhorted to lay in plenty of fresh water, lest the siege should last long, and lest the enemy shou...
DRAW THEE WATERS FOR THE SIEGE, FORTIFY THY STRONGHOLDS - This is not mere mockery at man’s weakness, when he would resist God. It foretells that they shall toil, and that, heavily. Toil is added upon...
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...
Even so Nineveh shall be made drunk with the cup of God's wrath, and faint and staggering shall seek refuge from the enemy. Her outer fortresses shall fall like first-ripe figs (Isaiah 28:4 *) into th...
DRAW THEE. Draw for thyself. GO... TREAD, &C. : i.e. make plenty of bricks [for the strongholds]. THE BRICKKILN. the brick-work. = fortifications, or walls] built with bricks. Hebrew. _malben._ See...
_NINEVEH'S STRONG HOLDS ARE WEAK -- NAHUM 3:12-15:_ The invading army would take Nineveh with the greatest of ease. God said, "Your fortresses are fig trees with ripe figs. Merely shake the trees, and...
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...
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. DRAW THEE WATERS FOR THE SIEGE, FORTIFY THY STRONG HOLDS - ironical exhorta...
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...
DRAW THEE WATERS. — In this desperate plight Nineveh is scoffingly advised to protract her resistance. The outer walls are broken down; let her hold out in the citadel. Nay, let her begin anew her pre...
מֵ֤י מָצֹור֙ שַֽׁאֲבִי ־לָ֔ךְ חַזְּקִ֖י מִבְצָרָ֑יִךְ...
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...
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 goes on with the same subject, — that the Ninevites would labor in vain, while striving anxiously and with every effort to defend themselves against their enemies. The meaning then is, “Th...
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...
DRAW THEE WATERS FOR THE SIEGE,.... Before the siege is begun, fetch water from the river, wells, or fountains without the city, and fill cisterns, and such like receptacles of water, with them; that...
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Ver. 14. _Draw thee waters for the siege, &c._] A most bitter and biting taunt...
_Draw thee waters for the siege_ Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. _Go into the clay_, &c. Set thy brickmakers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortifications....
Draw thee waters for the siege, that needed for a long period of siege of the enemies; FORTIFY THY STRONGHOLDS, strengthening the forts; GO INTO CLAY, for making bricks, AND TREAD THE MORTAR, in order...
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...
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...
DRAW THEE WATERS, fill all thy cisterns, and make more that thou want not for drink, yea, draw the waters into the ditches about every fort, FOR THE SIEGE, which thine enemies will lay against thee. F...
Nahum 3:14 Draw H7579 (H8798) water H4325 siege H4692 Fortify H2388 (H8761) strongholds H4013 Go H935 ...
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 3:14 As the enemy draws close, Nahum tells the city to get ready for the attack (see Nahum 2:1). However, any preparations they make will be useless. DRAW WATER. The
CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:14. DRAW] for a long-continued siege, improve fortifications, put the kiln in order for burning bricks. NAHUM 3:15. MAKE] Multiply thyself, like the largest and most formida...
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...
2 Chronicles 32:11; 2 Chronicles 32:3; 2 Chronicles 32:4; Isaiah 22:9;...
Draw thee waters — Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. Tread the mortar — Set thy brick — makers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortifications....