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He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily!
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God's Ironic Challenge
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that God's commands to Nineveh—"keep the fortress, watch the way"—are not helpful advice but a form of divine mockery. He is ironically challenging the proud, self-reliant empire to use all its military might, knowing it will be completely futile against His decreed judgment. This shows that no human power can withstand God's sovereign will.
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Nahum
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He that dasheth in pieces - Rather, “the Disperser,” the instrument of God, by which he would “break her in pieces like a potter’s vessel, o…
19th Century
Anglican
Keep the munition. —Better, guard the fortress. These four sententious directions to Nineveh are, of course, iro…
16th Century
Protestant
The waster spoken of here by the Prophet, some consider him to have been Sennacherib, and others, Nebuchadnezzar. The verb עלה, ole, is al…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He that dasheth in pieces is come up before your face O Nineveh, or land of Assyria; for this is not to be understood of …
Nineveh shall not avert this judgment; there is no counsel or strength against the Lord. God looks upon proud cities, and brings them down. A parti…
