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Nahum 3:13

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women, without strength and courage for the battle; the gates of thy land shall be set wide open, the Lord making the land easy of access to the invaders, unto thine enemies; the fire shall devour thy bars, those which held the great gates of the city shut.

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See also Nahum 3:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nahum 3:13. _THY PEOPLE _- ARE _WOMEN_] They lost all courage, and made no resistance. O vere Phrygiae, neque enim Phryges: "Verily, ye are Phrygian women, not Phrygian men." So said _Numanus_ t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, THY PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF THEE ARE WOMEN - Fierce, fearless, hard, iron men, such as their warriors still are portrayed by themselves on their monuments, they whom no toll wearied, no peril d...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. BEHOLD, THY PEOPLE - thy soldiers. IN THE MIDST...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THY PEOPLE... ARE WOMEN, not in their notoriously effeminate and luxurious habits (see Layard, p. 360), but with reference to their panic-stricken condition at the time of the catastrophe. They are fe...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּ֨ה עַמֵּ֤ךְ נָשִׁים֙ בְּ קִרְבֵּ֔ךְ לְ א

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet declares here, that the hearts of them all would become soft and effeminate when God would proceed to destroy Nineveh. We have said before that the hearts of men are so in the hand of God,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, THY PEOPLE IN THE MIDST OF THEE [ARE] WOMEN,.... Or like women, weak and feeble, fearful and timorous; frightened at the first approach of the enemy; run away, and run up and down in the utmos...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars. Ver. 13. _Behold, thy people in the midst of thee...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou also shalt be drunken_ Thou shalt drink deep of the bitter cup of God's displeasure. _Thou shalt be hid_, &c. Thou shalt not dare to appear in the open field. _Thou shalt seek strength because o...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BEHOLD; this may seem strange, but attend diligently, thou shalt see how this will be. THY PEOPLE; those thou hirest, and are thine for pay; those that are born thine, all thy warriors. IN THE MIDST O...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 3:13 people H5971 midst H7130 women H802 gates H8179 land H776 wide H6605 (H8800) open H6605 ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:12 Nineveh’s surrounding FORTRESSES will be the first to be taken by the advancing enemy army. The GATES of Assyria will be WIDE OPEN to the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] NAHUM 3:11. DRUNKEN] with the cup of Divine anger. A refuge from the enemy sought and not found in other nations. NAHUM 3:12. STRONGHOLDS] All the fortifications will be easily taken...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION NAHUM 3:1 Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 19:16; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 45:2; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Are women — Were very cowards. The gates — The strong frontiers. Wide open — Either through fear or treachery. Thy bars — With which the gates were shut and strengthened....

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