The burden of Nineveh, the sentence bringing the threat of Jehovah against the wicked city. THE BOOK OF THE VISION OF NAHUM, THE ELKOSHITE, the term probably indicating that Nahum did not deliver his prophecy in person, but reduced it to writing at once.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 about the overthrow and destruction of Nineveh, as the enemy of His people.... [ Continue Reading ]
God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, or, "A God jealous and taking vengeance is Jehovah," as He had stated of old, Exodus 20:5. THE LORD REVENGETH AND IS FURIOUS, literally, "An Avenger is Jehovah and a Master of fury," terrible in His wrath. THE LORD WILL TAKE VENGEANCE ON HIS ADVERSARIES, His p... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord is slow to anger, long-suffering and patient over against wickedness of long standing, AND GREAT IN POWER, His almighty strength becoming evident when He does strike, AND WILL NOT AT ALL ACQUIT THE WICKED, those who have shown that they are guilty. THE LORD HATH HIS WAY IN THE WHIRLWIND AND... [ Continue Reading ]
He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry, as when He caused the Red Sea to part before the children of Israel, Exodus 14:15, AND DRIETH UP ALL THE RIVERS, since they all are subject to His directions; BASHAN, the rich pasture-land east of Jordan, LANGUISHETH, AND CARMEL, the wooded slopes of the mounta... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the irrational brutes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Who can stand before His indignation? before His wrath when it burns freely. AND WHO CAN ABIDE IN THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ANGER? Cf Jeremiah 10:10. HIS FURY IS POURED OUT LIKE FIRE, in a torrent consuming everything before it, Deuteronomy 4:24, AND THE ROCKS ARE THROWN DOWN BY HIM. Cf Jeremiah 23:29.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord is good, even in the midst of His judgments, A STRONGHOLD IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE, a refuge when distress and misery come upon the believers; AND HE KNOWETH THEM THAT TRUST IN HIM, He has that intimate knowledge of them, that peculiar insight into their needs which guarantees them His help.... [ Continue Reading ]
But with an overrunning flood, a deluge which carries everything before it, HE WILL MAKE AN UTTER END OF THE PLACE THEREOF, so that Nineveh would cease to be a city and its very site be used for altogether different purposes, AND DARKNESS SHALL PURSUE HIS ENEMIES, a figure of a complete desolation.... [ Continue Reading ]
What do ye imagine against the Lord? Did the people of Judah think that Jehovah was not able to carry out His threat against Nineveh?. HE WILL MAKE AN UTTER END; AFFLICTION SHALL NOT RISE UP THE SECOND TIME, for the one blow on the part of the Lord would be quite sufficient, so that the affliction w... [ Continue Reading ]
For while, or though, THEY BE FOLDEN TOGETHER AS THORNS, braided together or entangled, AND WHILE THEY ARE DRUNKEN AS DRUNKARDS, though they are drowned in their carousing, in their wine, so that it might seem that fire would not be able to reach them or to affect them seriously, THEY SHALL BE DEVOU... [ Continue Reading ]
There is one come out of thee, namely, Sennacherib or one of the other rulers who invaded Judah, THAT IMAGINETH EVIL AGAINST THE LORD, meditating and speaking in this sense, A WICKED COUNSELOR, one who advised worthlessness, things that were foolish and brought no results. Cf Isaiah 36:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord, Though they be quiet and likewise many, no matter how tranquilly secure and how numerous they are, YET THUS SHALL THEY BE CUT DOWN, suddenly disappearing as though mowed down, WHEN HE SHALL PASS THROUGH, rather, and he passes away, namely, the daring invader who had meditated ev... [ Continue Reading ]
For now will I break his yoke from off thee and will burst thy bonds, which the proud invader had laid upon Judah, IN SUNDER.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee that no more of thy name be sown, that the dynasty of the Assyrian kings should become extinct; OUT OF THE HOUSE OF THY GODS WILL I CUT OFF THE GRAVEN IMAGE AND THE MOLTEN IMAGE, in whom the Assyrians placed their trust; I WILL MAKE THY GRAVE, FO... [ Continue Reading ]