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CHAPTER III
_The prophet denounces a wo against Nineveh for her perfidy and_
_violence. He musters up before our eyes the number of her_
_chariots and cavalry; points to her burnished arms, and to...
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WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY - Literally, “city of bloods” , i. e., of
manifold bloodshedding, built and founded in blood Habakkuk 2:12;
Jeremiah 22:13, as the prosperity of the world ever is. Murder,
oppre...
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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...
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NAHUM 3. A FRESH PICTURE OF THE END OF NINEVEH.
Nahum 3:1. Woe to that city of blood, full of lies and rapine, where
the prey never ceased, nor was any end to the booty! Now nothing is
heard in her bu...
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BLOODY CITY. city of great bloodshed (Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 22:3;
Ezekiel 24:6; Ezekiel 24:9;...
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_NINEVEH'S TERRIBLE UNGODLINESS -- NAHUM 3:1-7:_ Nineveh was the
capital of crime and evil. It was a city of murder and treachery. It
was doomed because of its wickedness. Their practice of preying up...
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WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! &C.— _Woe to the bloody city, which is
wholly perfidious and full of cruelty; whence rapines depart
not.—_Ver. 2. _Lo! the sound of the whip is at hand, the sound of
the rattli...
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CHAPTER XIV
THE EPITAPH OF NINEVEH
WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY. Nahum 3:1-3
RV. Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the
prey departeth not. The noise of the whip, and the noise of...
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Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey
departeth not;
WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! - literally, city of blood-namely, shed by
Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to be s...
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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...
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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...
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WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY! — Better, _O bloody city! She is altogether
deceit, filled with crime: she ceases not from plunder.
_...
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הֹ֖וי עִ֣יר דָּמִ֑ים כֻּלָּ֗הּ
כַּ֤חַשׁ פֶּ֨רֶק֙...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; (a)
the prey departeth not;
(a) It never ceases to spoil and rob....
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Blood. Nemrod established his power by shedding blood, Genesis x.
Ninus, who built Ninive, and his successors were also bloody. After
1200 years the empire decayed under Sardanapalus, as historians ag...
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CONTENTS
We have the continuation of the same subject, as in the two preceding
Chapter s. Under the character of Nineveh, the Lord is declaring the
final destruction of the Church's enemies....
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The last verse in this passage serves to throw a light upon the whole;
and proves that it is the cause of the Church which the Lord is
contending for. And if the Reader attends to the whole prophecy o...
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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...
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_NINEVEH’S DIRGE_
‘Woe to the bloody city!’
Nahum 3:1
I. WE NOW COME TO STANZAS OF TRIUMPH OVER THE GREAT CITY’S
FALL.—For convenience and clearness we may take the closing verses
of chapter 2 (i.e...
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The Prophet, as I have said, more clearly expresses here the reason
why the vengeance of God would be so severe on the Ninevites, —
because they had wholly given themselves up to barbarous cruelty; an...
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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...
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WOE TO THE BLOODY CITY,.... Nineveh, in which many murders were daily
committed; innocent blood shed; the lives of men taken away, under the
colour of justice, by false witnesses, and other unlawful m...
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Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the
prey departeth not;
Ver. 1. _Woe to the bloody city_] Nineveh, that delighteth in war,
which one well calleth the slaughter house o...
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_Wo to the bloody city_ Here God shows the cause of his bringing
destruction on Nineveh, and overthrowing the Assyrian empire. And
first, it is declared, that Nineveh was a city in which acts of
cruel...
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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...
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Woe to the bloody city, or, "O city of blood, of blood-guiltiness!".
IT IS ALL FULL OF LIES AND ROBBERY, so that deceit, violence, and
extortion were the order of the day; THE PREY DEPARTETH NOT, robb...
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BLOODY CITY:
_ Heb._ city of bloods...
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1-7 When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to
lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to
private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression....
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NAHUM CHAPTER 3 The miserable ruin of Nineveh. WOE! a comprehensive
threat of many and great calamities coming. TO THE BLOODY CITY;
Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrian kingdom: see NAHUM 1:1. IT I...
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Nahum 3:1 Woe H1945 bloody H1818 city H5892 full H4392 lies H3585
robbery H6563 victim H2964 departs H4185 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophet resumes his description of the siege.
BLOOD] Drops of blood shed in murder [_Keil_]. LIES] Vain promises of
help. DEPART.] Ceases not to plunder.
NAHUM 3:2. NOISE] In the...
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EXPOSITION
NAHUM 3:1
Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT—SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING
INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT....
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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...
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Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 22:3; Ezekiel 24:6; Habakkuk 2:12; Hosea 4:2;...
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The prey — Extortion and rapine....