Nahum 3:3-4

3 Horsemen charging, Swords flashing, ¹spears gleaming, ²Many slain, a mass of corpses, And ³countless dead bodies - They stumble over the dead bodies!

4 All because of the ⁴many harlotries of the harlot, The charming one, the ⁵mistress of sorceries, Who ⁶sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries.

Nahum 3:3-4 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.

Cross References

• 1. Habakkuk 3:11
• 2. Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 66:16
• 3. Isaiah 37:36; Ezekiel 39:4
• 4. Isaiah 23:17; Ezekiel 16:25-29; Revelation 17:1, 2
• 5. Is 47:9, 12, 13
• 6. Revelation 18:3

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "there is no end to"
• [b] Lit "their"