Nahum 3 - Introduction
_THE MISERABLE RUIN OF NINEVEH._ _Before Christ about 713._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MISERABLE RUIN OF NINEVEH._ _Before Christ about 713._... [ Continue Reading ]
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 rattling wheel,_ &c.—Ver. 3. _The horseman approacheth, and the glittering sword, and shining spear,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT SELLETH NATIONS— _That hath deceived the nations._ As the violence and injustice of the Ninevites had been represented under the emblem of a _lion,_ the prophet here paints their irregularities, their idolatry and corruption, under the idea of a _prostitute._ See Houbigant and Calmet. Those who... [ Continue Reading ]
ART THOU BETTER THAN POPULOUS NO?— _No-ammon._ Houbigant. The destruction of No-ammon, or Diospolis in Egypt, which Nahum mentions as a late transaction, would greatly assist in fixing the time of his prophesy, if we could know certainly when that destruction happened, or by whom it was effected. It... [ Continue Reading ]
ETHIOPIA, &C.— Houbigant renders this passage, _The Ethiopians and Egyptians, who are innumerable, were her strength: The Africans and Libyans were her helpers._... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ALSO SHALT BE DRUNKEN— _Therefore thou also_ [_like No-ammon_] _shalt be bought for a price, and shalt be stigmatized with a mark_ [_as purchased slaves were usually served_], _and shalt seek substance from thine enemy._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE SHALL THE FIRE DEVOUR THEE, &C.— According to the prophet, the city was to be destroyed by fire and water; and we see in the passage quoted from Diodorus, ch. Nahum 2:6 that by fire and water it was destroyed. See Bishop Newton.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY CROWNED— _Thy princes._ The author of the _Observations,_ in order to explain the phrase. _Which camp in the hedges in the cold day,_ remarks, that the locusts in 1724 and 1725, which in the eastern parts of the world made their first appearance towards the latter end of March, and were prodigio... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR PLACE IS NOT KNOWN— What probability was there, that the capital city of a great kingdom, a city which was sixty miles in compass, a city which contained so many thousand inhabitants, a city which had walls a hundred feet high, and so thick that three chariots could go abreast upon them, and w... [ Continue Reading ]