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Nahum 1:10

NAHUM—NOTE ON Nahum 1:10 Entangled thorns can be thrown all at once into the fire, just as the Assyrians as a whole will be wiped out. Like drunkards, the Assyrians will be unable to defend themselves against their attackers.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nahum 1:10. _WHILE_ THEY BE _FOLDEN TOGETHER_] However united their counsels may be, they shall be as _drunken men_-perplexed and unsteady in all their resolutions; and before God's judgments th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR WHILE THEY BE LEIDEN TOGETHER AS THORNS - that is, as confused, intertwined, sharp, piercing, hard to be touched, rending and tearing whosoever would interfere with its tangled ways, and seemingly...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (9-15) The first revelation of God’s judgment, by the awful overthrow of Sennacherib’s invading army in the reign of Hezekiah....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֚י עַד ־סִירִ֣ים סְבֻכִ֔ים וּ כְ סָבְאָ֖ם

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He goes on with this same subject, — that Gods when he pleases to exercise his power, can, with no difficulty, consume his enemies: for the similitude, which is here added, means this, — that nothing...

  • 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

    FOR WHILE [THEY BE] FOLDEN TOGETHER [AS] THORNS,.... Like them, useless and unprofitable, harmful and pernicious, fit only for burning, and, being bundled together, are prepared for it; and which is n...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 m...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-15 There is a great deal plotted against the Lord by the gates of hell, and against his kingdom in the world; but it will prove in vain. With some sinners God makes quick despatch; and one way or o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This gives us account how this desolation shall be effected. WHILE THEY BE FOLDED TOGETHER AS THORNS; they should be like thorns easily burnt, and like thorns folden together, which burn together, and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 1:10 tangled H5440 (H8803) thorns H5518 drunken H5433 (H8803) drunkards H5435 devoured H398 (H8795) stubble...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What do ye imagine against the Lord?_ SIN I. The essence of sin is suggested. It is hostility to God. It is opposition to the laws, purposes, Spirit of God. It involves-- 1. The basest of ingratit...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 2 Samuel 13:28;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    As thorns — They shall be like thorns easily burnt, and like thorns folded together which burn together, and help to destroy each other. As drunkards — As men drunken, and unable to help themselves, s...

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