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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nahum 1:2

God is jealous, &c.— This and the following verses, to the eighth, are a preamble, like that of many others in the Prophets, to prepare the mind of the reader, and to impress upon him sentiments of respect and fear. As God is very jealous of his honour, so will he not fail to execute his judgments on those who affront and dishonour him; and though he does not always punish impenitent sinners immediately, yet he will not fail in due time to execute his severity upon them. The repetition of the word revengeth denotes not only the greatness of the divine anger, but the certainty of the punishment. The reader will observe, that many of the ideas in the following verses are taken from the description of the Almighty's descent on mount Sinai.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Nahum 1:2. _GOD IS JEALOUS_] For his own glory. _AND - REVENGETH_] His justice; by the destruction of his enemies. _AND_ IS _FURIOUS_] So powerful in the manifestations of his judgments, that...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    GOD IS JEALOUS AND THE LORD REVENGETH - Rather (as the English margin) God “very jealous and avenging is the Lord.” The Name of God, יהוה (_YHVH_), “He who Is,” the Unchangeable, is thrice repeated, a...

  • 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

    GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. JEALOUS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:24). App-92. See the Structure (book comments for Nahum), and note the subjects of "A" and "A"; "B" and "B"; "C" an...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD -- NAHUM 1:1-2:_ God is pictured both as a jealous God and as an avenger against wrong doers. "God is jealous, and the Lord avenges; The Lord will take vengeance on His adversari...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1218 GOD A REVENGER OF SIN Nahum 1:2; Nahum 1:6. _God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserv...

  • 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

    God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. JEALOUS. In this there is sternn...

  • 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

    GOD... FURIOUS. — Better, _A jealous and vengeful God is Jehovah, an avenger is Jehovah, aye, wrathful._ This verse lays the groundwork for the declaration of God’s sentence against the offending city...

  • 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

    אֵ֣ל קַנֹּ֤וא וְ נֹקֵם֙ יְהוָ֔ה נֹקֵ֥ם יְהוָ֖

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    God [is] (d) jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and (e) [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies. (d) Meaning, of his...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _The Lord. The six following verses (Haydock) tend to excite attention. (Calmet)_...

  • 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 begins with the nature of God, that what he afterwards subjoins respecting the destruction of Nineveh might be more weighty, and produce a greater impression on the hearers. The preface is gener...

  • 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

    GOD [IS] JEALOUS, AND THE LORD REVENGETH,.... He is jealous of his own honour and glory, and for his own worship and ordinances; and will not give his glory to another, nor his praise to graven images...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

    _God is jealous_ For his own glory; _and the Lord revengeth _ Or rather, _avengeth_, namely, the cause, or ill treatment, of his people, as being the Supreme Governor, who, by office, is bound to deli...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, or, "A God jealous and taking vengeance is Jehovah," as He had stated of old, Exodus 20:5. THE LORD REVENGETH AND IS FURIOUS, literally, "An Avenger is Jehovah...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DIVINE COUNSEL CONCERNING THE JUDGMENT UPON NINEVEH. God, who is at the same time the God of the covenant and the almighty Sovereign of the universe, states that He has fully decided to bring abo...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GOD IS JELOUS, AND THE LORD REVENGETH: Or, the Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger, etc. FURIOUS: _ Heb._ that hath fury...

  • 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

    OLBHeb; GOD; the mighty God, so the French version, and the Hebrew la implieth it. IS JEALOUS; his love is fervent for his people, his displeasure hot against his and their enemies, whose idolatries h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 1:2 God H410 jealous H7072 LORD H3068 avenges H5358 (H8802) LORD H3068 avenges H5358 (H8802) furious...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GOD IS JEALOUS The great ethical lesson of Nahum is that the character of God makes Him not only "slow to anger," and "a stronghold to them that trust Him," but also one who "will not at all acquit t...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Nahum 1:2 I. There are many terms applied to God in Scripture, which seem to anthropomorphize His character: The "angry" God; the "repenting" God; the "foreseeing" God. Now, whenever such terms are us...

  • 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

    _God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth._ THE JEALOUS GOD There is in man a selfishness that is Divine. It is a singular fact, in our moral constitution, that often the tenderest feelings of our natu...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 1:2 A Psalm Descriptively Praising the Lord. These verses praise God as he has been and will be throughout world history. It presents God’s attitude toward, and action relating to,...

  • 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

    2 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 32:34; Deuteronomy 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:41;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Jealous — For his own glory. Revengeth — As supreme governor, who by office is bound to right the oppressed, and to punish the oppressor....

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Does God get angry? PROBLEM: Nahum declares that God “avenges and is furious.” Indeed, God is often represented as being angry in the Bible (cf. Isaiah 26:20; Jeremiah 4:8). At the same time, the Bibl...

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