Nahum 2:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold. The conquerors are summoned to plunder the city. Nineveh's riches arose from the annual tribute paid by so many subject states, as well as from its extensive merchandise (Nahum 3:16; Ezekiel 27:23-24, speaks similarly of Tyre's wealth, derived from merchants of many states). For there is none end of the store - accumulated by the plunder of subject nations. It is remarkable that while small articles of value (bronze inlaid with gold, gems, seals, and alabaster vases) are found in the ruins of Nineveh, there is none of gold and silver. These, as here foretold, were 'taken for spoil' before the palaces were set on fire.

And glory out of all the pleasant furniture - or 'there are riches of precious vessels of every kind' (Maurer). Nineveh's sole 'glory' х kaabod (H3519)] consisted in her riches or treasures of every kind.

Nahum 2:9

9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none endf of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.