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Nahum 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

This ruin shall fall on Nineveh because God is mindful of his chosen people, whom Assyria has oppressed. Hath turned away. It should be rendered, returneth to, or restoreth, bringeth back; reddidit (Vulgate); Isaiah 52:8; Hosea 6:11.

The excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel. The Lord restores the glory and honour of Jacob, the nation in its political aspect, and the high privileges of the spiritual Israel, the chosen people of God (comp.

Obadiah 1:18). For. Asshur is visited because Judah has had its full measure of punishment. The emptiers have emptied them out. The plunderers (the enemy) have plundered the Jews. And marred their vine branches.

The heathen have cut off the members of Israel, the Lord's vineyard. (For the metaphor "vine," comp. Psalms 80:8, etc.; Isaiah 5:1-30.; Jeremiah 41:10.) Not only from what is read in the Bible (e.g..

2 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 16:7, etc.; 2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 18:14), but from the details in the cuneiform inscriptions, we learn that the Assyrians were a constant danger and annoyance to Israel, and harassed continually both the southern and northern provinces.

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