|
|
From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
| Phrase of Scripture |
|
Correlating Passages |
 |
|
|
Thy shepherds
|
|
That is, the rulers and tributary princes, who, as Herodotus informs us, deserted Nineveh in the day of her distress, and came not to her succour. Diodorus also says, that when the enemy shut up the king in the city, many nations revolted; each going over to the besiegers for the sake of their liberty; that the king despatched messengers to all his subjects, requiring power from them to succour him, and that he thought himself able to endure the siege, and remained in expectation of armies which were to be raised throughout his empire, relying on the oracle, that the city would not be taken till the river became its enemy. Nah 2:6; Exd 15:16; Psa 76:5,6; Isa 56:9,10; Jer 51:39,57 |
|
O king
|
|
Jer 50:18; Eze 31:3-18; Eze 32:22,23 |
|
nobles
|
|
or, valiant ones. Isa 47:1; Rev 6:15 |
|
thy people
|
|
1Ki 22:17; Isa 13:14 |
Correlating Passages
  
  
|
Nah 2:6 |
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. |
|
Exd 15:16 |
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be [as] still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, [which] thou hast purchased. |
|
Psa 76:5 |
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands. |
|
Psa 76:6 |
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. |
|
Isa 56:9 |
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest. |
|
Isa 56:10 |
His watchmen [are] blind: they are all ignorant, they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. |
|
Jer 51:39 |
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD. |
|
Jer 51:57 |
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts. |
|
Jer 50:18 |
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria. |
|
Eze 31:3 |
Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. |
|
Eze 31:4 |
The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. |
|
Eze 31:5 |
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. |
|
Eze 31:6 |
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. |
|
Eze 31:7 |
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. |
| |
• Not all verses in this group were shown. To see the remaining verses, go here. |
|
Eze 32:22 |
Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: |
|
Eze 32:23 |
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. |
|
Isa 47:1 |
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: [there is] no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. |
|
Rev 6:15 |
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; |
|
1Ki 22:17 |
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace. |
|
Isa 13:14 |
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Nahum 3:18," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Nah/3/18.html>.
|
Search the Bible
Search the BLB
Featured Items
Today's Items:
Items of Interest:
|
){kind=link}