Nahum 1:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. ”

Nahum 1:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry - Delivering His people, as He did from Pharaoh Psalms 106:9 , the type of all later oppressors, and of antichrist. “His word is with power; to destroy them...
Nahum 1:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Avenging Wrath of Yahweh. Yahweh is a jealous and vengeful God sensitive to the honour of Himself and His people who marcheth through whirlwind and storm to save them from the enemy. Before His...
Nahum 1:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

He rebuketh the sea . Reference to Pentateuch ( Exodus 14 .) Compare Psalms 106:9 . and drieth up, &c . Compare Joshua 4:23 . Psalms 74:15 .
Nahum 1:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum continues his discourse, — that God, in giving proof of his displeasure, would disturb the sea or make it dry. There may be here an allusion to the history, described by Moses; for the Pr...
Nahum 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. He rebuketh the sea - The Red Sea and the rivers: probably...
Nahum 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. He rebuketh the sea - as Jesus did ( Matthew 8:26...
Nahum 1:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

God's Vengeance on His People's Enemies. Deliverance for Judah 1, 2. Superscription: 'Oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of prophesying of Nahum the Elkoshite.' A. theological intro...
Nahum 1:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(2-8) God’s character a pledge that the oppressor of His servants shall be destroyed.
Nahum 1:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE VENGEANCE OF THE LORD Nahum 1:1-15 THE prophet Nahum, as we have seen, arose probably in Judah, if not about the same time as Zephaniah and Jeremiah, then a few years later. Whether he prop...
Nahum 1:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Goodness and Righteous Anger Nahum 1:1-15 The native city of Nahum was Elkosh, near the Lake of Galilee. The name Capernaum means literally “the village of Nahum.” He lived about 150 year...
Nahum 1:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The prophet preceded the announcement of a verdict of vengeance by a section dealing wholly with Jehovah Himself. As to His character, He is a God of vengeance, and yet the central fact of His nature...
Nahum 1:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet opens his sermon with the most striking text, such as the Lord himself opened his sermon with, when he preached before Moses. See Exodus 34:1-7 . It were to weaken the words of this sole...
Nahum 1:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry ,.... As he did the Red sea, when the children of Israel passed through it as on dry land; which shows his power and sovereignty over it; that it is at his com...
Nahum 1:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. Ver. 4. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry ] He had...
Nahum 1:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry The rivers and the sea itself are dried up at his rebuke, as the Red sea and Jordan were of old; and the most pleasant and fruitful countries, such as Bashan,...
Nahum 1:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Nineveh; The Awful Power of God. B. C. 710. 2 God is jealous, and th...
Nahum 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He rebuketh: he once did rebuke, as Exodus 14:21 ; he still can, as a lord rebuketh his servant, or a general rebukes his soldier, by word or look, Isa 1 Isa 2 . The sea; literally understood...
Nahum 1:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Might and Character of God ( Nahum 1:2-8 ). The prophecy begins with an awesome and magnificent picture of the might and character of God. Nahum 1:2 ‘YHWH is a jealous God and avenges. YHW...
Nahum 1:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 1:1 . The burden of Nineveh Nahum the Elkoshite. This refers to a village of Galilee, the native place of Nahum, who in point of talent was among the first of the Hebrew prophets. Yet nothin...
Nahum 1:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

He rebuketh the sea. God’s power Here is a description of God’s power unrivalled in its sublimity and soul-stirring force. Power belongeth unto God. It is absolute, inexhaustible, ever and ever...
Nahum 1:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Nahum 1:1-34 Part I. THE JUDGMENT UPON NINEVEH DECREED BY GOD . Nahum 1:1 § 1. The heading of the book. The book has a double title, the first giving the obj...
Nahum 1:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Divine Counsel Concerning the Judgment upon Nineveh. God, who is at the same time the God of the covenant and the almighty Sovereign of the universe, states that He has fully decided to bring...
Nahum 1:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 1:2 ; Amos 5:8 ; Ezekiel 30:12 ; Isaiah 19:5-10 ; Isaiah 33:9 ; Isaiah 44:27 ; Isaiah 50:2 ; Isaiah 50:3 ; Isaiah 51:10 ; Job 38:11 ; Joshua 3:13-15 ; Matthew 8:26 ; Psalms 104:7 ;...
Nahum 1:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The flower — Whatever flourished thereon; the blossoms, and flowers which were wont to be the glory of it.

Nahum 1:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nahum 1:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nahum 1:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nahum 1:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nahum 1:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nahum 1:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nahum 1:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 1:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nahum 1:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 1:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 1:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Nahum 1:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nahum 1:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nahum 1:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nahum 1:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes