Nahum 3:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Nahum 3:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women - Fierce, fearless, hard, iron men, such as their warriors still are portrayed by themselves on their monuments, they whom no toll wearied, no pe...

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• Nahum 3:13 - 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 3:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet declares here, that the hearts of them all would become soft and effeminate when God would proceed to destroy Nineveh. We have said before that the hearts of men are so in the hand...

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• Nahum 3:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Thy people - are women - They lost all courage, a...

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• Nahum 3:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Behold, thy people - thy soldiers. In th...

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• Nahum 3:13 - 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 3:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Thy people... are women, not in their notoriously effeminate and luxurious habits (see Layard, p. 360), but with reference to their panic-stricken condition at the time of the catastrophe. They are...

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• Nahum 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women ,.... Or like women, weak and feeble, fearful and timorous; frightened at the first approach of the enemy; run away, and run up and down in the ut...

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• Nahum 3:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 13. Behold, thy people in the midst of th...

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• Nahum 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Behold; this may seem strange, but attend diligently, thou shalt see how this will be. Thy people; those thou hirest, and are thine for pay; those that are born thine, all thy warriors. In the m...

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• Nahum 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - 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 3:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 19:16 ; Isaiah 45:1 ; Isaiah 45:2 ; Jeremiah 50:37 ; Jeremiah 51:30 ; Nahum 2:6 ; Psalms 107:16 ; Psalms 147:13

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• Nahum 3:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Are women — Were very cowards. The gates — The strong frontiers. Wide open — Either through fear or treachery. Thy bars — With which the gates were shut and strengthened.

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