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Nahum 3:12-13

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 enemies since the fortresses that guarded those entrances have been destroyed. The troops, that is, the soldiers within Nineveh, will be filled with fear, so that they cannot act as men. fire. See Nahum 2:13; Nahum 3:15.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nahum 3:12. _THY STRONG HOLDS_] The effects of the consternation into which the Ninevites were cast by the assault on their city are here pointed out by a very expressive metaphor; the _first-r...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    ALL THY STRONG-HOLDS SHALL BE LIKE FIG TREES, WITH THE FIRST RIPE FIGS - Hanging from them; eagerly sought after , to be consumed. Being ripe, they are ready to fall at once; “if they be shaken;” it n...

  • 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

    All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. ALL THY STRONG HOLDS - on the borders of Assyria, protect...

  • 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

    THOU ALSO SHALT BE DRUNKEN. — Nineveh also shall be _drunken_ with the cup of God’s wrath (see Habakkuk 2:16), yea, _hid_ from recollection, so that men shall ask, “Where is Nineveh?” (Comp. Nahum 2:1...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כָּ֨ל ־מִבְצָרַ֔יִךְ תְּאֵנִ֖ים עִם ־בִּכּוּרִ֑ים אִם...

  • 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 here declares that the strongholds of the Assyrians would avail them nothing; whether they trusted in the number of their men, or in their walls, or in other defenses, they would be disapp...

  • 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

    ALL THY STRONG HOLDS [SHALL BE LIKE] FIG TREES WITH THE FIRST RIPE FIGS,.... Upon them, or like them: "and the first ripe figs"; which are easily shook and gathered; and so easily should the fortresse...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. Ver. 12. _All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees_] _...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    All thy strongholds, the fortresses and castles of the Assyrian country, SHALL BE LIKE FIG-TREES WITH THE FIRST-RIPE FIGS, considered a special delicacy; IF THEY BE SHAKEN, THEY SHALL EVEN FALL INTO T...

  • 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

    ALL THY STRONG HOLDS, castles and fortified places, not one or two, but all of them, SHALL BE LIKE FIG TREES, easily shaken, WITH THE FIRST-RIPE FIGS, whose weight and ripeness will bring them quickly...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 3:12 strongholds H4013 trees H8384 figs H1061 shaken H5128 (H8735) fall H5307 (H8804) mouth H6310 eater...

  • 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 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

    Habakkuk 1:10; Revelation 6:13...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ripe figs — Whose weight and ripeness will bring them quickly to the ground. Shaken — If but lightly touched....

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