The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 1:10
For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns…
Like
them, useless and unprofitable, harmful and pernicious, fit only for
burning, and, being bundled together, are prepared for it; and which is
not only expressive of the bad qualities of the Ninevites, and of the
danger they were in, and what they deserved; but of the certainty of
their ruin, no more being able to save themselves from it, than a
bundle of thorns from the devouring fire:
and while they are drunken [as] drunkards;
dead drunk, no more able to
help themselves than a drunken man that is fallen; or who were as
easily thrown down as a drunken man is with the least touch; though
there is no need to have recourse to a figurative sense, since the
Ninevites were actually drunk when they were attacked by their enemy,
as the historian relates F9; that the king of Assyria being elated
with his fortune, and thinking himself secure, feasted his army, and
gave them large quantities of wine; and while the whole army were
indulging themselves, the enemy, having notice of their negligence and
drunkenness by deserters, fell upon them unawares in the night, when
disordered and unprepared, and made a great slaughter among them, and
forced the rest into the city, and in a little time took it:
they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry;
as easily, and as
inevitably and irrecoverably.
FOOTNOTES:
F9 Diodor. Sicul. l. 2. p. 112.
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