Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nahum 1:8
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8. with an overrunning flood —that is, with irresistible might which overruns every barrier like a flood. This image is often applied to overwhelming armies of invaders. Also of calamity in general ( Psalms 32:6 ; Psalms 42:7 ; Psalms 90:5 ). There is, perhaps, a special allusion to the mode of Nineveh's capture by the Medo-Babylonian army; namely, through a flood in the river which broke down the wall twenty furlongs (see on Psalms 90:5- : ; Isaiah 8:8 ; Daniel 9:26 ; Daniel 11:10 ; Daniel 11:22 ; Daniel 11:40 ). end of the place thereof —Nineveh is personified as a queen; and " her place" of residence (the Hebrew for "thereof" is feminine) is the city itself ( Daniel 11:40- : ), [MAURER]. Or, He shall so utterly destroy Nineveh that its place cannot be found; Daniel 11:40- : confirms this (compare Psalms 37:36 ; Daniel 2:35 ; Revelation 12:8 ; Revelation 20:11 ). darkness —the severest calamities. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-9" class="com-number"
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