Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 1:14

14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee , that no more of thy name be sown : out of the house of thy Gods will I cut off the graven image , and the molten image : I will make thy grave , for thou art vile .

God of Israel, against whom thou imaginest evil,

Determin'd with himself, and given charge to the Medes, which in due season they will observe, and with assistance of the Chaldeans, will fully execute.

Or against thee Sennacherib, thy Royal Family, and the whole Kingdom of Assyria.

Tho' Esar-haddon son to this Sennacherib did succeed his Father, yet may it be rather said he was never sown, he never took root, but like seed that falling on the surface of the Earth, there withers and dies, or else none shall bear thy Name, and Title; but hereafter thy Kingdom shall be swallowed up by the Power, and silenced in the Name of Babylonian or Chaldean Monarchy.

Temples built for their Heathenish Worship.

Idols intimating the number of them, and the chiefest of them.

Destroy, and abolish, so Idolatrous Conquerours were Gods Servants to cut off Idolatrous Worship, and Idols of the Conquered Nations; so did this Sennacherib, 2 Kings 18.33, 34. Isa. 37.19. destroy the Idols of the Conquered, so should they do against the Assyrian Idols who were appointed of God to wast Nineveh.

Either it respecteth the universal destruction of the Idols all cut off, not one left: or rather some one more noted, depended on, worshipt, called Isa. 37.38. Nisroch, by some thought to be the Sun, but nothing in particular is elsewhere recorded of this Ido[illegible: 1 letter], or its Worship.

Added either to intimate that all Idols should fall in the future ruine of the Kingdom, or to let us know that the worth of the Mettal of which the Image was made, and the curiosity of the work, nor yet the pretext of Sacred as a God, should be any safeguard to it.

Thou shalt not have a Royal Magnificent Tomb made by thy Successor, or, such as honour thee, but thou shalt be either buried in obscurity, or else thy Tomb shall relate thy vileness, as 'tis reported it did by this Inscription under Sennacherib's Statue in an Aegyptian Temple, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Learn to fear God who lookst on me.

Despised [illegible: 2 letters]nce thy defeat before Ierusalem, or rather hast been a vile prophane despiser of God, whom thou hast blasphemed, and reproacht, and an oppressour of men whom thou hast slain, or enslaved, unworthy of Life, and unworthy of a Grave when dead.