The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt…
As Sinai
of old did, when the Lord descended on it, (Exodus 19:18) (Judges 5:5) . Mountains
figuratively signify kings and princes; and hills large countries, as
Jarchi and Abarbinel observe, and the inhabitants of them; particularly
the kingdoms and nations belonging to the Assyrian empire, which would
tremble and quake, and their hearts melt with fear, when they should
hear of the destruction of Nineveh their chief city; and of the
devastation made by the enemy there and in other parts, under the
direction of the Lord of hosts; his power and providence succeeding
him:
and the earth is burnt at his presence;
either when he withholds rain
from it, and so it be comes parched and burnt up with the heat of the
sun; or when he rains fire and brimstone on it, as he did on Sodom and
Gomorrah; or consumes any part of it with thunder and lightning, as he
sometimes does; nay, if he but touch the mountains, they smoke; see
(Psalms 104:32) ;
yea, the world, and all that dwell therein;
as in the last day, at the
general conflagration, when the world, and all the wicked inhabitants
of it, will be burnt up; see (2 Peter 3:10) .
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