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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nahum 2:2 - 2:2
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For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob - that is, the time for Nineveh’s overthrow is ripe, because Jacob (Judah) and Israel (the ten tribes) have been sufficiently chastised. The Assyrian rod of chastisement, having done its work, is to be thrown into the fire. If God chastised Jacob and Israel with all their “excellency” (Jerusalem and the temple, which was their pre-eminent excellency above all nations in God’s eyes, Psa 47:4; Psa 87:2; Eze 24:21; see on Amo 6:8), how much more will He punish fatally Nineveh, an alien to Him, and idolatrous? Maurer, not so well, translates, “restores,” or “will restore the excellency of Jacob.”
emptiers - the Assyrian spoilers.
have emptied them out - have spoiled the Israelites and Jews (Hos 10:1). Compare Psa 80:8-16, on “vine branches,” as applied to Israel.