The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste…
The city of
Nineveh, empty of inhabitants, being killed, or having fled; and
stripped of all its treasures and riches by the enemies; its walls and
houses demolished and pulled down, and laid in ruins, and become a heap
of rubbish; (See Gill on 1:8). Various words are here used to
ascertain and confirm the thing; and there is an elegant play on words
or likeness of sounds, which our language will not express:
and the heart melteth;
the heart of every inhabitant of Nineveh
melted with fear at the approach of their enemies, their entrance into
the city, and plunder of it; flowed like water, or melted like wax; see
(Psalms 22:14) :
and the knees smite together;
like people in a fright, and when a
panic has seized them; and as it was with Belshazzar, (Daniel 5:6) :
and much pain [is] in all loins;
like that of women in travail; or
of persons in a sudden fright, which gives them a pain in their backs
at once:
and the faces of them all gather blackness;
like a pot, as the
Targum adds; being in great distress and disconsolation, which make men
appear in a dismal hue, and their countenances look very dark and
gloomy; see (Joel 2:6) .
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