The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 2:7
And Huzzab shall be led away captive…
The Targum
translates it the queen; and Jarchi and Aben Ezra, after R. Samuel,
take it to be the name of the queen of Assyria; so called, as every
queen might, from her standing at the king's right hand, (Psalms 45:9)
who, when the royal palace was destroyed, was taken out, and carried
captive with the rest, who before was in a well settled and tranquil
state and condition: or perhaps the king himself is designed, who may
be represented as a woman, as follows, for his effeminacy; conversing
only with women; imitating their voice; wearing their apparel; and
doing their work, spinning… which is the character historians F12
give of the last king of the Assyrians: some F13 take it to be the idol
Venus, worshipped by the Ninevites: though it may be meant either of
the palace itself, as Kimchi's father, which was firm and well
established; or rather Nineveh itself, thought to be stable and secure,
the inhabitants of which should be carried into a strange land:
she shall be brought up;
the queen, or the king, out of the palace
or private retirement, where they were in peace and safety; or Nineveh,
and the inhabitants of it, out of their secure state and condition:
and her maids shall lead [her];
her maids of honour, supporting her
on the right hand and left, ready to sink and faint under her
misfortunes: this may also be understood of towns and villages, and the
inhabitants of them, that should go into captivity along with Nineveh:
as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts;
mourning
like doves, inwardly and secretly, not daring to express their sorrow
more publicly, because of their enemies; but knocking and beating upon
their breasts, as men do upon tabrets or drums, thereby expressing the
inward grief of their minds; see (Ezekiel 7:16) .
FOOTNOTES:
F12 Diodor. Sicul. l. 2. p. 109, 110.
F13 Gebhardus apud Burkium in loc.
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