Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 1:11
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Nahum1:11
11 There is one come out of thee that imagineth evil against the LORD : a wicked counsellour .
This is a very usual Dialect to express an uncertain number; several are contain'd in such, One, though if you will determine it to one single person, it is very like it may be Senacherib, or Rabshekah.
From Nineveh he set forth on that Expedition against Iudea in the dayes of Hezekiah.
Nineveh.
Consulteth, hath formed, and resolved upon it.
So 'tis evident by his Blasphemies against the Lord, Isa. 36.7, 18, 20. and 37.10, 24, 29. 2 Chron. 32.14, 15, 17, 19. And he imagin'd evil against the people of the Lord, 2 Chron. 32.1.
One whose councels, and projects are without any regard to right and equity, who by injustice and oppressions, who by frauds and deceits, by bloud and slaughter designs his own greatness, and the ruin of his neighbours.
Marginal references: Heb. a counsellor of Belial.
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