Nahum 3
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| The "bloody city"[1] is associated with "Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city" we saw in Amos 7:17 but here Nahum says "selleth nations through her whoredoms" |
| Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary v 1-7 "When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression." Proverbs' One purse speaks of this greed for gain and the snare created by consent and the knife we should put tour throat if we have an appetite for the deceitful meats of the king and his husbandmen[2]. |
| The legal charity offered by rulers who call themselves benefactors and become the fathers of the earth offering the dainties sacrificed to idols are the same as Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh which all bring about the bondage of Egypt. |
| Barnes' Notes tells us that the "city of bloods" told about in Habakkuk 2:12;[3] and Jeremiah 22:13,[4] "as the prosperity of the world". |
| The people become merchandise because of their covetous practices. |
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1 ¶ Woe to the bloody city![1] it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts[5], that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.[5] 5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. 7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh[6] is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
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Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
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Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
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Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
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All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
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Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
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Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
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Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
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There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Summary of Nahum Chapter 3
The whoredom with the strange woman was a form of whoredom that brings whips and chariots. The witchcraft was associated with what was called sorcery which was associated with the metaphor of something the deceptive and seductive that was in turn associated with of idolatry or in the New Testament Witchcraft.
God will expose the face behind the curtain/skirt "and I will shew the nations thy nakedness which is the lack of authority and the shame of their kingdoms. What was once great will be "laid waste" and will not find the "comforters".
Though she was strong "she went into captivity" and the swarms of office eat her up. "Thy shepherds slumber" because you whored after the king of Assyria. Thy people are scattered upon the mountains because they have forgotten the bands of liberty and desired the bands of bondage that come with the wages of unrighteousness.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.
- Ezekiel 7:23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
- Ezekiel 22:2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
- Ezekiel 22:3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
- Ezekiel 24:6 Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it... 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
- Hosea 6:8 Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
- ↑ 01462 גּוֹב GimelVavBeit gowb [gobe] from 01461 GimelVavBeit guwb meaning husbandman; n m coll; [BDB-146b] [{See TWOT on 304 @@ "304b" }] AV-grasshopper 2; 2
- 1) locusts
- How is a word that means a husbandman become a locust or grasshopper.
- Amos 7:1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers <01462> in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
- It appears in this form כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י in Nahum 3:17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers <01462>, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
- Other words for grasshopper are 02284 ChetGimelBeit and 0697 AlefReshBeitHey from rabah ReshBeitHey 07235 which means "to become numerous".
- ↑ Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
- ↑ Jeremiah 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 03785 כֶּשֶׁף kesheph [keh’-shef] KafShinPei from 03784; n m; [BDB-506b] [{See TWOT on 1051 @@ "1051a" }] AV-witchcraft 4, sorcery 2; 6
- 1) sorcery, witchcraft
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
- פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
- ↑ Nineveh was the capital of Assyria which is associated with Babylon and the bondage of Egypt 05210 נִינְוֵה Niynëveh [nee-nev-ay’] of foreign origin, Greek 3535 Νινευι; n pr loc; [BDB-644a] [{See TWOT on 1326 @@ "1326a" }] AV-Nineveh 17; 17 Nineveh= "abode of Ninus"
- 1) capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria; located on the east bank of the Tigris river, 550 miles (880 km) from its mouth and 250 miles (400 km) north of Babylon