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Nahum 1:4,5

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 (Joshua 3:1). Bashan was famous for its rich pasturelands. Carmel was well known for its beauty and its fruitful countryside. Lebanon was noted for its forests. Hills and mountains are symbols of permanence, but even they cannot stand before God.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 4. _HE REBUKETH THE SEA_] The Red Sea, and the rivers: probably an allusion to the passage of the _Red Sea_ and _Jordan_. The description of the coming of Jehovah, from the third to the sixth...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE REBUKETH THE SEA AND MAKETH IT DRY - Delivering His people, as He did from Pharaoh Psalms 106:9, the type of all later oppressors, and of antichrist. “His word is with power; to destroy them at onc...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • 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

    HE REBUKETH THE SEA. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 14.) Compare Psalms 106:9. AND DRIETH UP, &C. Compare Joshua 4:23.Psalms 74:15....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. HE REBUKETH THE SEA - as Jesus did (, "Then he arose, an...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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

    (2-8) God’s character a pledge that the oppressor of His servants shall be destroyed....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גֹּועֵ֤ר בַּ † יָּם֙ וַֽ יַּבְּשֵׁ֔הוּ וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Desert, as at the Red Sea, Psalm cv. 9. --- Languisheth. The most fruitful places produce nothing, when God is angry._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    Nahum continues his discourse, — that God, in giving proof of his displeasure, would disturb the sea or make it dry. There may be here an allusion to the history, described by Moses; for the Prophets,...

  • 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

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. Ver. 4. _He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry_] He had s...

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

    _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,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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; BA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HE REBUKETH: he once did rebuke, as EXODUS 14:21; he still can, as a lord rebuketh his servant, or a general rebukes his soldier, by word or look, ISA 1 ISA 2. THE SEA; literally understood, or figura...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 1:4 rebukes H1605 (H8802) sea H3220 dry H2717 (H8689) up H3001 (H8762) rivers H5104 Bashan...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 1:2; Amos 5:8; Ezekiel 30:12; Isaiah 19:5; Isaiah 33:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The flower — Whatever flourished thereon; the blossoms, and flowers which were wont to be the glory of it....

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