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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nahum 3:11

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.

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See also Nahum 3:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU ALSO - As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto thee. The cruelties on No, in the cycle of God’s judgments, draw on the like upon Nineveh who inflicted them. “Thou also shalt be drunken” with...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THOU: i.e. Nineveh. BE DRUNKEN: i.e. drink of the cup [of judgment]; or, be stupefied by thy calamity. BE HID. hide thyself. STRENGTH. strength [for defence]; hence. "thou shalt seek. stronghold, o...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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....

  • 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

    Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. THOU ALSO SHALT BE DRUNKEN - made to drink of the cup of Yahweh's wrath (Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:2...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:11 hid; (f-9) Or 'shalt hide thyself.'...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    STRENGTH] RV 'a stronghold.' 12-15. The outer defences have fallen; it is the beginning of the end. 14. Go into clay, etc.] make bricks to strengthen the walls....

  • 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

    גַּם ־אַ֣תְּ תִּשְׁכְּרִ֔י תְּהִ֖י נַֽעֲלָמָ֑ה גַּם...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Drunk, and be chastised by God, Ezechiel xxiii. 32. --- From, to escape._...

  • 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

    Nahum, after having adduced the example of Alexandria, now shows that nothing would be able to resist God, so that he should not deal with Nineveh in the same manner; and he declares that this would b...

  • 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

    THOU ALSO SHALT BE DRUNKEN,.... This is said to Nineveh, whose turn would be next to drink of the cup of the wrath of God, and be inebriated with it, so that they should not know where they were, or w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy._ Ver. 11. _Thou also shalt be drunken_] _sc._ with the cup of the wine of God's wrath; Jer 25:27 th...

  • 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

    Thou also, namely, Nineveh, SHALT BE DRUNKEN, upon receiving the cup of God's fury in judgment; THOU SHALL BE HID, covered over, as though she had never existed; THOU ALSO SHALT SEEK STRENGTH BECAUSE...

  • 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...

  • 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

    THOU, O Nineveh, SHALT BE DRUNKEN; not only taste, but drink deep, yea, be drunk with the bitter cup of God's displeasure and thine enemies rage, ISAIAH 29:9 OBADIAH 1:16. THOU SHALT BE HID; either hi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Nahum 3:11 drunk H7937 (H8799) hidden H5956 (H8737) seek H1245 (H8762) refuge H4581 enemy H341 ...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    NAHUM—NOTE ON NAHUM 3:11 This verse directly applies the lesson of vv. Nahum 3:8: “Nineveh, you can expect the same!” Just as a DRUNKEN man cannot defend himself against an attacker, so

  • 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

    1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 14:11; Amos 9:3; Hosea 10:8; Isaiah 2:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thou also — Thou shalt drink deep of the bitter cup of God's displeasure. Hid — Thou shalt hide thyself. O Nineveh, as well as Alexandria. Shalt seek — Shalt sue for, and intreat assistance....

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