Nahum 3:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. ”

• Nahum 3:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Thou also - As thou hast done, so shall it be done unto thee. The cruelties on No, in the cycle of God’s judgments, draw on the like upon Nineveh who inflicted them. “Thou also shalt be drunken”...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Even so Nineveh shall be made drunk with the cup of God's wrath, and faint and staggering shall seek refuge from the enemy. Her outer fortresses shall fall like first-ripe figs ( Isaiah 28:4 *) into...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Thou: i.e. Nineveh. be drunken: i.e. drink of the cup [of judgment]; or, be stupefied by thy calamity. be hid . hide thyself. strength . strength [for defence]; hence. "thou shalt seek. stro...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Nahum, after having adduced the example of Alexandria, now shows that nothing would be able to resist God, so that he should not deal with Nineveh in the same manner; and he declares that this...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

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• Nahum 3:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Thou also shalt be drunken— Therefore thou also [ like No-ammon ] shalt be bought for a price, and shalt be stigmatized with a mark [ as purchased slaves were usually served ], and shalt seek...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. Thou also shalt be drunken - made to drink of the cup of Yahweh's wrath ( Isaiah 51:17 ; Is...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thou also shalt be drunken . — Nineveh also shall be drunken with the cup of God’s wrath (see Habakkuk 2:16 ), yea, hid from recollection, so that men shall ask, “Where is Nineveh?” (Comp. Nah...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I include the whole of this passage in one view for the sake of shortness, having already extended the Commentary very much beyond the original design. The whole of Nahum's prophecy, if taken literal...

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• Nahum 3:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou also shalt be drunken ,.... This is said to Nineveh, whose turn would be next to drink of the cup of the wrath of God, and be inebriated with it, so that they should not know where they were, o...

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• Nahum 3:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. Ver. 11. Thou also shalt be drunken ] sc. with the cup of the wine of God's wrath; Jer 25:27...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Thou also shalt be drunken Thou shalt drink deep of the bitter cup of God's displeasure. Thou shalt be hid , &c. Thou shalt not dare to appear in the open field. Thou shalt seek strength beca...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Judgment of Nineveh. B. C. 710.       8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situa...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Thou, O Nineveh, shalt be drunken; not only taste, but drink deep, yea, be drunk with the bitter cup of God's displeasure and thine enemies rage, Isaiah 29:9 Obadiah 1:16 . Thou shalt be hi...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 3:11 . Drunken] with the cup of Divine anger. A refuge from the enemy sought and not found in other nations. Nahum 3:12 . Strongholds] All the fortifications will b...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - 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...

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• Nahum 3:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Miserable Ruin of Nineveh. Jehovah now shows that the cause of Nineveh's destruction is its wickedness, and that for this reason the city is bound to submit to the sentence which has been pron...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 13:6 ; 1 Samuel 14:11 ; Amos 9:3 ; Hosea 10:8 ; Isaiah 2:10 ; Isaiah 2:19 ; Isaiah 29:9 ; Isaiah 49:26 ; Isaiah 63:6 ; Jeremiah 25:15-27 ; Jeremiah 4:5 ; Jeremiah 51:57 ; Jeremi...

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• Nahum 3:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Thou also — Thou shalt drink deep of the bitter cup of God's displeasure. Hid — Thou shalt hide thyself. O Nineveh, as well as Alexandria. Shalt seek — Shalt sue for, and intreat assistance.

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