Nahum 1:4

Filipino Cebuano Bible

4 Iyang ginabadlong ang dagat, ug nagahimong mamala niana, ug ginapamala niya ang tanang mga suba: nagaanam pagkamatay ang Basan, ug ang Carmelo usab, ug ang bulak sa Libano nagaanam pagkalawos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rebuketh: Job 38:11, Psalms 104:7, Psalms 106:9, Psalms 114:3, Psalms 114:5, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 50:3, Isaiah 51:10, Amos 5:8, Matthew 8:26

and drieth: Joshua 3:13-15, Psalms 74:15, Isaiah 19:5-10, Isaiah 44:27, Ezekiel 30:12

Bashan: Isaiah 33:9, Amos 1:2

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:16 - rebuking Job 12:15 - Behold Job 28:9 - he overturneth Psalms 77:19 - way Psalms 89:9 - General Psalms 103:15 - a flower Psalms 107:33 - turneth Isaiah 13:13 - in the wrath Isaiah 42:15 - General Jeremiah 5:22 - placed Jeremiah 8:16 - at the Ezekiel 38:20 - the fishes Hosea 4:3 - the land Habakkuk 3:8 - the Lord Mark 4:39 - rebuked Luke 8:24 - he arose

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry,.... As he did the Red sea, when the children of Israel passed through it as on dry land; which shows his power and sovereignty over it; that it is at his command, as a servant at his master's; and since the wind and sea obey him, what is it he cannot do? see Isaiah 50:2;

and drieth up all the rivers; that is, he can do it if he will; he divided the waters of Jordan, through the midst of which the Israelites passed on dry ground; and will dry up the river Euphrates, to make way for the kings of the east; and as for Tigris, on the banks of which the city of Nineveh stood, of which the inhabitants boasted, and in which they trusted for their security, he could dry up, and make way for the enemy to enter in; or make that their enemy, and overflow them with it, as he did; see Nahum 1:8. By the "sea" and "rivers" may be meant the whole Assyrian empire, and many nations and people, as Jarchi and Abarbinel interpret it, of whom it consisted; see Jeremiah 51:36;

Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth; when the Lord restrains the heavens from giving rain, then Bashan, famous for its fat pastures and fruitful meadows, and Carmel for its rich grain fields, and Lebanon for its tall shadowy cedars, these, and the glory of all, wither and fade away, being parched and dried up for want of moisture. These were places in the land of Israel, but may be put for like flourishing and fruitful hills and countries in the land of Assyria, which should become desolate; see Psalms 107:33.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry - Delivering His people, as He did from Pharaoh Psalms 106:9, the type of all later oppressors, and of antichrist. “His word is with power; to destroy them at once with one rough word (Wisd. 12:9). The restlessness of the barren and troubled sea is an image of the wicked. “And drieth up all the rivers” Isaiah 57:20, as He did Jordan. His coming shall be far more terrible than when all the hearts of the inhabitants of the land did melt. “Bashan languisheth and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth” Joshua 2:11. Bashan was richest in pastures; Carmel, according to its name, in gardens and vineyards; Lebanon, in vines also and fragrant flowers Hosea 14:7; Song of Solomon 4:11, but chiefly in the cedar and cypress; it had its name from the whiteness of the snow, which rests on its summit. These mountains then together are emblems of richness, lasting beauty, fruitfulness, loftiness; yet all, even that which by nature is not, in the variety of seasons, wont to fade, dries up and withers before the rebuke of God. But if these thing are “done in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” All freshness, beauty, comeliness, show of outward nature, shall fade as grass; all ornament of men’s outward graces or gifts, all mere show of goodness, shall fall off like a leaf and perish. If the glory of nature perishes before God, how much more the pride of man! Bashan also was the dwelling-place of the race of giants, and near Libanus was Damascus; yet their inhabitants became as dead men and their power shrank to nothing at the word of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 4. He rebuketh the sea — The Red Sea, and the rivers: probably an allusion to the passage of the Red Sea and Jordan.

The description of the coming of Jehovah, from the third to the sixth verse, is dreadfully majestic. Nahum 1:3-6 He is represented as controlling universal nature. The sea and the rivers are dried up, the mountains tremble, the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence. Bashan, Carmel, and Lebanon are withered and languish: streams of fire are poured out, and the rocks are cast down to make him a passage. If then, the seas, the rivers, the mountains, the hills, the rocks, and the earth itself, fail before Jehovah, or flee from his presence, how shall Nineveh and the Assyrian empire stand before him?