Nahum 3:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

The whoredom — The idolatries, which were multiplied by the many people that served the Assyrian idols. And whoredoms literally understood, did undoubtedly abound, where wealth, luxury, ease, and long continuance of these were to be found. Well — favoured — Glorious in their state and government, and in the splendor of their idols, temples, and sacrifices. Of witchcrafts — Bewitching policies; or it may be taken for witchcrafts or necromances, which abounded among the Assyrians. That selleth — That dispose of them as imperiously, and absolutely as men do slaves. And families — This may intimate the seducing of some particular and eminent families to an hereditary service of the Assyrian idols, or to witchcrafts, in which the devil imitated God's institution, in taking a family to his service.

Nahum 3:4

4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.