the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Nahum 2:2
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Sungguh, TUHAN memulihkan kebanggaan Yakub, seperti kebanggaan Israel; sebab perusak telah merusakkannya dan telah membinasakan carang-carangnya.
Bahkan, Tuhan akan membangunkan pula kemuliaan Yakub, demikianpun kemuliaan Israel, meskipun penjarah sudah menjarahi dia sampai hampa dan sudah membinasakan segala cabang pokok anggurnya.)
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hath: Isaiah 10:5-12, Jeremiah 25:29
excellency of Jacob as the excellency: or, the pride of Jacob as the pride, Zephaniah 3:11
for: Genesis 49:22, Genesis 49:23, Psalms 80:12, Psalms 80:13, Jeremiah 49:9, Hosea 10:1
Reciprocal: Psalms 47:4 - excellency Jeremiah 13:9 - the pride Jeremiah 48:11 - emptied Jeremiah 48:12 - empty Jeremiah 50:37 - their horses Jeremiah 51:34 - he hath made
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And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastwarde in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had shapen.
The name of ye first is Pison, the same is it that compasseth the whole lande of Hauilah, where there is golde:
Sixe daies thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest: that thyne oxe and thyne asse may rest, and the sonne of thy mayde and the straunger may be refreshed.
For it is a signe betweene me and the children of Israel for euer: for in six dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth, and in the seuenth day he rested and was refreshed.
But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God: thou shalt not do any worke, thou nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man seruaunt, nor thy mayde, nor thine oxe, nor thine asse, nor any of thy cattell, nor the straunger that is within thy gates: that thy man seruaunt, and thy mayde, may rest as well as thou.
Yea if thou turne thy feete from the sabbath, so that thou do not the thing whiche pleaseth thy selfe in my holy day, and thou call the pleasaunt, holy, and glorious sabbath of the Lorde, and that thou geue hym the honour, so that thou do not after thyne owne imagination, neither seeke thyne owne wyll, nor speake thyne owne wordes:
And Iesus aunswered them: My father worketh hitherto, and I worke.
For he spake in a certayne place of the seuenth daye on this wyse: And God dyd rest the seuenth daye from all his workes.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel,.... Or, "will render" a recompence for, or "revenge the pride of Jacob" e; all that insolence, and those injuries done in a proud and haughty manner by Sennacherib king of Assyria to the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; invading their land, taking their fenced cities, and besieging their metropolis; and in an audacious manner threatening them with utter destruction, unless they surrendered; and also by Shalmaneser, another king of Assyria, who had besieged and took Samaria the capital city of Israel or the ten tribes, and had carried them captive; and now Assyria, though it had been the rod of God's anger, and the instrument of his chastisement and correction of his people, must in its turn suffer and smart for all this:
for the emptiers have emptied them out: the Assyrians, partly by their exactions and tributes they demanded, and partly by their spoil and plunder, had stripped Israel and Judah of all, or the greatest part, of their substance, wealth, and treasure:
and marred their vine branches; their children, their sons and daughters, slaying them, or carrying them captive. Israel and Judah are often compared to a vine, and so their posterity to branches: or "corrupted" f them, with superstition and idolatry. The Targum interprets it of their renowned cities; these, and towns and villages, being to the land as branches to the vine; and which had been ransacked and pillaged by the Assyrians, and now they should be paid in their own coin.
e ×× ×©× ×××× ×ת ×××× ××¢×§× "ulciscitur enim Jehova adhibitam in Jacobaeos superbiam", Castalio; "reponit Deus Assyrio illam superbiam quam ipse in Jacobo et Israele exercuit", Grotius; "quia reddidit superbiam", &c. Tirinus. f ש××ª× "corruperunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Vatablus, Burkius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For the Lord hath turned away - (rather restoreth) the excellency of Jacob Speaking of what should come, as already come. For Nineveh falls, because God restores His people, whom it had oppressed. The restoration of Godâs favor to His Church is the season of His punishment of their enemies; as, again, His displeasure against her enemies is a token of His favor to her. When Herod was smitten by God, âthe word of God grew and multipliedâ Acts 12:24. A long captivity was still before Judah, yet the destruction of the Assyrian was the earnest that every âoppressing city should ceaseâ Isaiah 33:1.
The excellency of Jacob - The word, âexcellency,â is used in a good or bad sense; bad, if man takes the excellency to himself; good, as given by God. This is decisive against a modern popular rendering ; âhas returned to the excellency of Jacob;â for Scripture knows of no âexcellency of Jacob,â except God Himself or grace from God. Jacob, if separated from God or left by Him, has no excellency, to which God could return.
As the excellency of Israel - Both the ten and the two tribes had suffered by the Assyrian. The ten had been carried captive by Shalmanezer, the two had been harassed by Sennacherib. After the captivity of the ten tribes, the name Jacob is used of Judah only. It may be then, that the restoration of Godâs favor is promised to each separately. Or , there may be an emphasis in the names themselves. Their forefather bore the name of Jacob in his troubled days of exile; that of Israel was given him on his return Genesis 32:28. It would then mean, the afflicted people (Jacob) shall be restored to its utmost glory as Israel. The sense is the same.
For the emptiers have emptied them out - Their chastisement is the channel of their restoration. Unlike the world, their emptiness is their fullness, as the fullness of the world is its emptiness. The world is cast down, not to arise, for âwoe to him that is alone when he falleth: for he hath not another to help him upâ Ecclesiastes 4:10. The Church falleth, but âto ariseâ Micah 7:8 : the people is restored, because it had borne chastening Ezekiel 36:3, Ezekiel 36:6-7; âfor the Lord hath restored the excellency of Jacob, for the emptiers have emptied them. out and marred their vinebranchesâ (see Psalms 80:12-13), i. e., its fruit-bearing branches, that, as far as in them lay, it should not bear fruit unto God; but to cut the vine is, by Godâs grace, to make it shoot forth and bear fruit more abundantly.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Nahum 2:2. For the Lord hath turned away — Bishop Newcome reads, for the Lord restoreth, by a slight alteration in the text. I do not see that we gain much by this. The Lord has been opposed to Jacob, and the enemy has prevailed against him.
Emptied them out — Brought them from their own land into captivity. This was the emptying!