The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 1:13
For now will I break his yoke from off thee… The Assyrian
yoke from off the Jews, who had been obliged to pay tribute, or send
presents to the king of Assyria, from the times of Ahaz; and were in
bondage, while shut up and besieged by his army, and the country all
around laid under contribution; from all which they were delivered when
his army was in that dreadful manner destroyed:
and will burst thy bonds in sunder; and set thee entirely free from the
bondage of the enemy, and all fear of it; a type of that freedom from
the yoke of sin, Satan, and the law, which the people of God have by
Jesus Christ.
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