Nahum 3:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Woe to the bloodya city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; ”

Nahum 3:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Woe to the bloody city - Literally, “city of bloods” , i. e., of manifold bloodshedding, built and founded in blood Habakkuk 2:12 ; Jeremiah 22:13 , as the prosperity of the world ever is. Murd...
Nahum 3:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; (a) the prey departeth not; (a) It never ceases to spoil and rob.
Nahum 3:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3. A fresh Picture of the End of Nineveh. Nahum 3:1-7 . Woe to that city of blood, full of lies and rapine, where the prey never ceased, nor was any end to the booty! Now nothing is heard i...
Nahum 3:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

bloody city . city of great bloodshed ( Ezekiel 22:2 ; Ezekiel 22:3 ; Ezekiel 24:6 ; Ezekiel 24:9 ; Habakkuk 2:12 ). departeth not . will not be lacking. Captive princes were exposed to public...
Nahum 3:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet, as I have said, more clearly expresses here the reason why the vengeance of God would be so severe on the Ninevites, — because they had wholly given themselves up to barbarous crue...
Nahum 3:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Wo to the bloody city! - Nineveh: the threatenings against which are continued in a strain of invective, astoni...
Nahum 3:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Woe to the bloody city! &c.— Woe to the bloody city, which is wholly perfidious and full of cruelty; whence rapines depart not.— Ver. 2. Lo! the sound of the whip is at hand, the sound of the...
Nahum 3:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Woe to the bloody city! - literally, city of blood-namely, shed by Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to...
Nahum 3:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Doom of Nineveh 1-7. Another threat against Nineveh, showing that disaster has come upon her on account of her sins. The keynote of the whole chapter is the fierce cry, Woe to the bloody city...
Nahum 3:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Woe to the bloody city ! — Better, O bloody city! She is altogether deceit, filled with crime: she ceases not from plunder.
Nahum 3:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE SIEGE AND FALL OF NINEVEH Nahum 2:1-13 ; Nahum 3:1-19 THE scene now changes from the presence and awful arsenal of the Almighty to the historical consummation of His vengeance. Nahum fores...
Nahum 3:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deserved Doom Nahum 3:1-19 This terrible chapter pictures the doom of Nineveh. She had used infamous methods in bringing surrounding nations under her power, and now her shame was to be discove...
Nahum 3:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The last part of the prophecy is devoted wholly to the vindication of Jehovah's action against Nineveh, and is a fitting defense of the introductory declarations concerning His character. In the fir...
Nahum 3:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS We have the continuation of the same subject, as in the two preceding Chapter s. Under the character of Nineveh, the Lord is declaring the final destruction of the Church's enemies.
Nahum 3:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

NINEVEH’S DIRGE ‘Woe to the bloody city!’ Nahum 3:1 I. We now come to stanzas of triumph over the great city’s fall. —For convenience and clearness we may take the closing verses of chapter...
Nahum 3:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Woe to the bloody city ,.... Nineveh, in which many murders were daily committed; innocent blood shed; the lives of men taken away, under the colour of justice, by false witnesses, and other unlawfu...
Nahum 3:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not; Ver. 1. Woe to the bloody city ] Nineveh, that delighteth in war, which one well calleth the slaughter house...
Nahum 3:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wo to the bloody city Here God shows the cause of his bringing destruction on Nineveh, and overthrowing the Assyrian empire. And first, it is declared, that Nineveh was a city in which acts of crue...
Nahum 3:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Nineveh. B. C. 710. 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies...
Nahum 3:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

NAHUM CHAPTER 3 The miserable ruin of Nineveh. Woe! a comprehensive threat of many and great calamities coming. To the bloody city; Nineveh, the chief city of the Assyrian kingdom: see Nahum...
Nahum 3:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] The prophet resumes his description of the siege. Blood ] Drops of blood shed in murder [ Keil ]. Lies] Vain promises of help. Depart .] Ceases not to plunder. Nahum 3:2 ....
Nahum 3:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nahum 3:1 . Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Assyria became a great empire through violence, falsehood, and robbery. The soldiery had no respect...
Nahum 3:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 3:1 . Woe to the bloody city. Nineveh was drunk with blood. She was burdened with the wealth of plundered nations; her feasts and idolatries filled up the measure of her iniquity. Oh how sub...
Nahum 3:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Nahum 3:1-34 Part III . THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT — SINS OF THE CITY , WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT . Nahum 3:1-34 § 1. The prophet specifies t...
Nahum 3:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe to the bloody city, or, "O city of blood, of blood-guiltiness!". It is all full of lies and robbery, so that deceit, violence, and extortion were the order of the day; the prey departeth not,...
Nahum 3:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:2 ; Ezekiel 22:3 ; Ezekiel 24:6-9 ; Habakkuk 2:12 ; Hosea 4:2 ; Isaiah 17:14 ; Isaiah 24:2 ; Isaiah 42:24 ; Nahum 2:12 ; Zephaniah 3:1-3
Nahum 3:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The prey — Extortion and rapine.

Nahum 3:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nahum 3:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nahum 3:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nahum 3:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 3:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nahum 3:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 3:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nahum 3:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nahum 3:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nahum 3:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes