The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Slain” it comes from the Hebrew Word “chalal” which means “slain, pierced.”
Nahum pronounces final woe against Nineveh’s cruelty, comparing her coming fall to No’s earlier destruction. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Nahum 3.
Nahum pronounces woe to the bloody city, it being all full of lies and robbery, the prey not departing, the noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the jumping chariots, the horseman lifting up both the bright sword and the glittering spear, and there being a multitude of “slain,” “chalal” in Hebrew, and a great number of carcasses, there being none end of their corpses, they stumbling upon their corpses.
Nahum attributes this to the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, who sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts, the Lord of hosts declaring He is against her, and will discover her skirts upon her face, and will show the nations her nakedness, and the kingdoms her shame, He will cast abominable filth upon her, and make her vile, and will set her as a gazingstock, asking who will bemoan her, or whom shall he seek comforters for her.
Nahum asks whether Nineveh is better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea, yet was she carried away, she went into captivity, her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets, warning Nineveh too shall be drunken, she shall be hid, she shall also seek strength because of the enemy, her fortresses being like fig trees with the firstripe figs, that if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater, her people being as women in the midst of her, closing with the devastating final image that there is no healing of her bruise, her wound being grievous, all who hear the report clapping their hands over her, for upon whom has not her wickedness passed continually.
Nahum’s sobering comparison between Nineveh’s coming fall and the earlier, historically verifiable destruction of the Egyptian city No demonstrates that even seemingly impregnable, well-defended cities have genuinely fallen before under God’s appointed judgment. This book’s unflinching, graphic depiction of Assyria’s own violent cruelty finally being turned back upon her offers sober confirmation that persistent, unrepentant wickedness ultimately meets appointed, inescapable consequence.
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