Nahum 3:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

crowned. mercenary crowds. Hebrew. minzarim. Occurs only here. See Fuerst, Lex., p. 832.

captains. muster-masters, or marshals. Hebrew. tiphsar. Occurs only here, and Jeremiah 51:27. Like the Assyrian dupsarru. a tablet-writer.

hedges. loose stone walls.

flee away. are in flight.

Nahum 3:17

17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.