Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Nahum 3:17
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17. Thy crowned —Thy princes ( Revelation 9:7 ). The king's nobles and officers wore the tiara, as well as the king; hence they are called here "thy crowned ones." as the locusts —as many as the swarming locusts. thy captains — Tiphsar, an Assyrian word; found also in Revelation 9:7- : , meaning satraps [MICHAELIS]; or rather, "military leaders" [MAURER]. The last syllable, sar means a "prince," and is found in Belshaz-zar, Nabopolas-sar, Nebuchadnez-zar. as the great grasshoppers —literally, "as the locust of locusts," that is, the largest locust. MAURER translates, "as many as locusts upon locusts, " that is, swarms of locusts. Hebrew idiom favors English Version. in the hedges in the cold —Cold deprives the locust of the power of flight; so they alight in cold weather and at night, but when warmed by the sun soon "flee away." So shall the Assyrian multitudes suddenly disappear, not leaving a trace behind (compare PLINY, Natural History, 11.29). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-18" class="com-number"
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