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Verse Nahum 3:10. _THEY CAST LOTS FOR HER HONOURABLE MEN_] This refers
still to the city called _populous No_. And the custom of _casting_
_lots_ among the commanders, for the prisoners which they had...
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YET WAS SHE - (also ) carried away, literally, “She also became an
exile band,” her people were carried away, with all the barbarities
of pagan war. All, through whom she might recover, were destroyed...
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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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Nineveh boasted of her strength, but she was no better placed than
No-Amon, with the Nile around her for rampart, the whole strength of
Egypt and Ethiopia her defence, and Put and the Libyans as allie...
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YET WAS SHE, &C. The cuneiform monuments tell us that Thebes, the old
capital of Egypt, was destroyed by Assyria about 663 B.C. Assurbanipal
has recorded his conquest. Nahum, writing about 603 B. C, r...
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_NINEVEH COMPARED TO OTHERS -- NAHUM 3:8-11:_ "Art thou better than
populous No?" (Nahum 3:8) No is another name for Thebes. Thebes was a
notable city in Egypt. The Nile River was its wall of defense....
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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...
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Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children
also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they
cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were b...
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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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גַּם ־הִ֗יא לַ † גֹּלָה֙ הָלְכָ֣ה בַ...
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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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_Captivity. It was afterwards re-established and taken by
Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) --- Fetters, or stocks. (Haydock)_...
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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...
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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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_Yet, _he says, _she departed into captivity a captive; _that is, the
inhabitants of Alexandria have been banished, and the city become as
it were captive, for its inhabitants were driven here and the...
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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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YET [WAS] SHE CARRIED AWAY, SHE WENT INTO CAPTIVITY,.... Not by
Nebuchadnezzar; though this city was afterwards taken, and its
inhabitants carried captive, by that monarch, as was foretold,
Jeremiah...
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Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young
children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and
they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were...
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_Art thou better than populous No_ Art thou in a better or safer
condition; or hast thou more merit than the famous populous city of
No? The Hebrew reads, _No-ammon_, the same city which is spoken of...
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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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Yet, in spite of all her own power and the strength of her allies, WAS
SHE CARRIED AWAY, SHE WENT INTO CAPTIVITY, after a conquest by Sargon,
Esar-haddon, or Tir-haqua; HER YOUNG CHILDREN ALSO WERE DA...
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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...
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SHE WAS CARRIED AWAY: it is probable this might be about thirty years
before; for about A.M. 3207, as Calvisius, or 3277, as Archbishop
Usher, Sabacon king of Ethiopia invaded Egypt, took Bocchoris, a...
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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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_Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity._
ENVIRONMENTS
These were certainly close environments; but whence had they come?
From still closer ones, like those of pride and enervating habits...
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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
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NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:8 To those who think it is impossible that
Nineveh would fall, Nahum reminds them of what had recently happened
to the mighty city of Thebes, in Egypt (see Introduction: Author a...
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NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:10 Despite its strategic advantages, Thebes
was conquered by the Assyrians.
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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...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
NAHUM 3:8.] She will share the fate of _No-Amon_, a royal city of
Egypt, populous, sacred, and strong (Ezekiel 30:14; Jeremiah 46:25),
like Nineveh well situated, protected by waters...
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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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2 Kings 8:12; Amos 1:13; Hosea 13:16; Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 20:4;...