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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nahum 1:8 - 1:8
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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 (Psa 32:6; Psa 42:7; Psa 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 Nah 2:6; Isa 8:8; Dan 9:26; Dan 11:10, Dan 11:22, Dan 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 (Nah 2:8), [Maurer]. Or, He shall so utterly destroy Nineveh that its place cannot be found; Nah 3:17 confirms this (compare Psa 37:36; Dan 2:35; Rev 12:8; Rev 20:11).
darkness - the severest calamities.