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Nahum 3:8-18

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8 Are you better than 1No-amon *, Which was situated by the 2waters of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea?
9 3Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits. 4Put and 5Lubim were among her helpers.
10 Yet she 6became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her 7small children were dashed to pieces 8At the head of every street; They 9cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters.
11 You too will become 10drunk, You will be 11hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortifications are 12fig trees with 13ripe fruit - When shaken, they fall into the eater's mouth.
13 Behold, your people are 14women in your midst! The gates of your land are 15opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.
14 16Draw for yourself water for the siege! 17Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!
15 There 18fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will 19consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.
16 You have increased your 20traders more than the stars of heaven - The creeping locust strips and flies away.
17 Your 21guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your 22marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
18 Your shepherds are 23sleeping, O 24king of Assyria; Your 25nobles are lying down. Your people are 26scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.
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Nahum 3:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NAHUM 3

In this chapter is contained the prophecy of the destruction of Nineveh, and with it the whole Assyrian empire; the causes of which, besides those before mentioned, were the murders, lies, and robberies it was full of, Na 3:1 for which it should be swiftly and cruelly destroyed, Na 3:2,3 as also its whoredoms and witchcrafts, or idolatry, by which nations and families were seduced, Na 3:4 and hence she should be treated as a harlot, her nakedness exposed, and she cast out with contempt, and mocked at by all, Na 3:5-7 and all those things she placed her confidence in are shown to be of no avail; as her situation and fortresses, as she might learn from the case of No Amon, Na 3:8-12 nor the number of her inhabitants, which were weak as women; nor even her merchants, captains, nobles, and king himself, Na 3:13-18 nor the people she was in alliance with, who would now mock at her, her case being irrecoverable and incurable, Na 3:19.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 26

  • 1. Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14-16
  • 2. Isaiah 19:6-8
  • 3. Isaiah 20:5
  • 4. Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 30:5; Ezekiel 38:5
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 12:3; 2 Chronicles 16:8
  • 6. Isaiah 19:4; Isaiah 20:4
  • 7. Psalms 137:9; Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 13:16
  • 8. Lamentations 2:19
  • 9. Joel 3:3; Obadiah 11
  • 10. Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 25:27; Nahum 1:10
  • 11. Isaiah 2:10, 19; Hosea 10:8
  • 12. Revelation 6:13
  • 13. Isaiah 28:4
  • 14. Isaiah 19:16; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30
  • 15. Isaiah 45:1, 2; Nahum 2:6
  • 16. 2 Chronicles 32:3, 4
  • 17. Nahum 2:1
  • 18. Isaiah 66:15, 16; Nahum 2:13; Nahum 3:13
  • 19. Joel 1:4
  • 20. Isaiah 23:8
  • 21. Revelation 9:7
  • 22. Jeremiah 51:27
  • 23. Psalms 76:5, 6; Isaiah 56:10; Jeremiah 51:57
  • 24. Jeremiah 50:18
  • 25. Nahum 2:5
  • 26. 1 Kings 22:17; Isaiah 13:14

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