From Nave’s Topical Bible
Nahum
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Nahum 1:1
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
Commentary on Nahum 1:12 voices
The burden - Jerome: The word משׂא mas's'â', burden is never placed in the title, except when the vision is heavy and full of burden and toil. Of Nineveh - The prophecy of Nahum again is very stern and awful. Nineveh, after having repented at the preaching of Jonah, again fell back into the sins whereof it had repented, and added this, that, being employed by God to chasten Israel, it set itself, not to inflict the measure of Gods displeasure, but to uproot the chosen people, in whom was promised the birth of Christ .
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
The burden - When the prophets were sent to denounce judgments against a nation or city, the word was usually called the burden of that nation or city.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Nahum 2:1
One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
Commentary on Nahum 2:12 voices
Ironical advice; equivalent to a prophecy, Thou shalt have need to use all possible means of defense; but use what thou wilt, all will be in vain. make thy loins strong--The loins are the seat of strength; to gird them up is to prepare all one's strength for conflict (Job 40:7).
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Chapter 2, verses 1 and 2: He who scatters has ascended before your face, guarding the siege: consider the way, strengthen your loins, greatly fortify your strength. For just as the Lord has repaid the pride of Jacob, so He will repay the pride of Israel. Because the desolators have scattered them and spoiled their branches. I am compelled by necessity to turn my course between the rocks and the cliffs, with imminent shipwreck, so as to navigate between the history and allegory of my discourse, and to be cautious lest it suddenly collide.
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic
- Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Commentary on Nahum 3:12 voices
Though hv, eu, sometimes means Woe; yet it is put here as though the Prophet would have constrained Nineveh to undergo its punishment, O sanguinary city, then, the whole of it is full of kchs cachesh: the word signifies leanness and the Prophet no doubt joins here together two words, which seem to differ widely, and yet they signify the same thing.
John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554Reformed
(Chapter 3, verses 1 and following) Woe to the city of blood, full of deceit and torn apart. The plunder will not cease. The sound of the whip, the sound of the rattling wheel, the galloping horses and the blazing chariots, the ascending knight and the flashing sword, the gleaming spear and the multitude of the slain, and the weighty destruction. There is no end to the corpses.
Jerome· Commentary on Nahum, 420Patristic