Nahum 1:10

Filipino Cebuano Bible

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

while they be: 2 Samuel 23:6, 2 Samuel 23:7, Micah 7:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

drunken: Nahum 3:11, 1 Samuel 25:36, 2 Samuel 13:28, Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57

they shall: Psalms 68:2, Isaiah 9:18, Isaiah 10:17-19, Isaiah 27:4, Malachi 4:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:12 - stubble Exodus 15:7 - consumed 1 Kings 16:9 - drinking Job 21:18 - as stubble Psalms 10:6 - not Psalms 83:14 - the flame Psalms 118:12 - quenched Proverbs 23:29 - Who hath woe Ecclesiastes 7:4 - the heart Isaiah 5:14 - he that rejoiceth Isaiah 5:24 - devoureth Isaiah 21:4 - the night Isaiah 47:8 - I shall not Isaiah 47:14 - they shall Ezekiel 21:10 - should Daniel 5:1 - made Hosea 2:11 - cause Amos 6:7 - and the Amos 8:10 - I will turn Obadiah 1:18 - for stubble Habakkuk 2:5 - he transgresseth Habakkuk 2:7 - they Luke 6:25 - mourn Luke 12:20 - God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 i; 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.

i Diodor. Sicul. l. 2. p. 112.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For while they be leiden together as thorns - that is, as confused, intertwined, sharp, piercing, hard to be touched, rending and tearing whosoever would interfere with its tangled ways, and seemingly compact together and strong; “and while they are drunken as their drink” , not “drinkers” only but literally, “drunken,” swallowed up, as it were, by their drink which they had swallowed, mastered, overcome, powerless, “they shall be derogated as stubble fully dry” , rapidly, in an instant, with an empty crackling sound, unresisting, as having nothing in them which can resist. Historically, the great defeat of the Assyrians, before the capture of Nineveh, took place while its king, flushed with success, was giving himself to listlessness; and having distributed to his soldiers victims, and abundance of wine, and other necessaries for banqueting, the whole army was negligent and drunken.”

In like way Babylon was taken amid the feasting of Belshazzar Daniel 5:1-30; Benhadad was smitten, while “drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him” 1 Kings 20:16. And so it may well be meant here too, that Sennacherib’s army, secure of their prey, were sunk in revelry, already swallowed up by wine, before they were swallowed up by the pestilence, on the night when the Angel of the Lord went out to smite them, and, from the sleep of revelry, they slept the sleep from which they shall not awake until the Judgment Day. God chooses the last moment of the triumph of the wicked, when he is flushed by his success, the last of the helplessness of the righteous, when his hope can be in the Lord alone, to exchange their lots. “The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead” Proverbs 11:8. Spiritually , “the false fullness of the rich of this world, is real leanness; the greenness of such grass (for all flesh is grass) is real dryness. Marvelous words, “fully dry.” For what is dryness but emptiness?” They are perfected, but in dryness, and so perfectly prepared to be burned up. “The thorns had, as far as in them lay, choked the good seed, and hated the Seed-corn, and now are found, like stubble, void of all seed, fitted only to be burned with fire. For those who feast themselves “without fear is reserved the blackness of darkness forever” Jude 1:12-13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Nahum 1:10. While they be folden together — However united their counsels may be, they shall be as drunken men-perplexed and unsteady in all their resolutions; and before God's judgments they shall be as dry thorns before a devouring fire.