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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Nahum 2:2

For the LORD hath (b) turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and (c) marred their vine branches.

(b) Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them; read (Isaiah 10:12).

(c) Signifying that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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