Nahum 3:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. ”

Nahum 3:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strongholds - This is not mere mockery at man’s weakness, when he would resist God. It foretells that they shall toil, and that, heavily. Toil is added...
Nahum 3:14 - 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...
Nahum 3:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Draw thee . Draw for thyself. go... tread, &c. : i.e. make plenty of bricks [for the strongholds]. the brickkiln . the brick-work. = fortifications, or walls] built with bricks. Hebrew. ma...
Nahum 3:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet goes on with the same subject, — that the Ninevites would labor in vain, while striving anxiously and with every effort to defend themselves against their enemies. The meaning then...
Nahum 3:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Draw thee waters for the siege - The Tigris ran near to Nineveh, and here they...
Nahum 3:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds - ironical ex...
Nahum 3:14 - 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 3:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Draw thee waters. — In this desperate plight Nineveh is scoffingly advised to protract her resistance. The outer walls are broken down; let her hold out in the citadel. Nay, let her begin anew her...
Nahum 3:14 - 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 3:14 - 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 3:14 - 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 3:14 - 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...
Nahum 3:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Draw thee waters for the siege ,.... Before the siege is begun, fetch water from the river, wells, or fountains without the city, and fill cisterns, and such like receptacles of water, with them; th...
Nahum 3:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Ver. 14. Draw thee waters for the siege, &c. ] A most bitter and biting...
Nahum 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Draw thee waters for the siege Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. Go into the clay , &c. Set thy brickmakers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortificati...
Nahum 3:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Nineveh. B. C. 710. 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situa...
Nahum 3:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Draw thee waters, fill all thy cisterns, and make more that thou want not for drink, yea, draw the waters into the ditches about every fort, for the siege, which thine enemies will lay against th...
Nahum 3:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] Nahum 3:14 . Draw] for a long-continued siege, improve fortifications, put the kiln in order for burning bricks. Nahum 3:15 . Make] Multiply thyself, like the largest and...
Nahum 3:14 - 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 3:14 - 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 3:14 - 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 3:14 - 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...
Nahum 3:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 32:11 ; 2 Chronicles 32:3 ; 2 Chronicles 32:4 ; Isaiah 22:9-11 ; Isaiah 37:25 ; Isaiah 8:9 ; Jeremiah 46:3 ; Jeremiah 46:4 ; Jeremiah 46:9 ; Joel 3:9-11 ; Nahum 2:1
Nahum 3:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Draw thee waters — Fill all thy cisterns, and draw the waters into the ditches. Tread the mortar — Set thy brick — makers on work to prepare store of materials for thy fortifications.

Nahum 3:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Nahum 3:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Nahum 3:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Nahum 3:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nahum 3:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Nahum 3:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Nahum 3:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 3:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Nahum 3:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Nahum 3:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Nahum 3:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Nahum 3:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Nahum 3:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Nahum 3:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nahum 3:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes