Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 1:15

15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tydings , that publisheth peace : O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts , perform thy vows : for the wicked shall no more pass through thee, he is utterly cut off e.

As this speaks some unexpected thing, so it calls for our heeding and minding of it,

Over which he must needs come that either came from the Assyrian Camp where the miraculous slaughter was made, or from Nineveh, where the Fugitive defeated Tyrant was slain, many Mountains invironing Ierusalem, and lying dispersed in Iudea, over which the Messengers came, who brought news of Sennacherib's Death, or downfal of the Assyrian Kingdom.

Good news indeed to an oppressed, and weakned people, at which they might well rejoice indeed if it be considered what this Tyrant intended, vid. Isa. 10. from ver. 5. to theend of the chap. Now he is dead, who designed the mischief.

Proclaimeth, and tells to every one he meets.

Not by league or friendship with the Assyrian, but as the consequent of his Death, and overthrow of his Kingdom.

Be careful to serve God, and Worship him ye that are his people.

Made in thy deep distress when all seemed lost and forlorn.

That wicked Counsellor, ver. 11. the violent oppressour, proud Sennacherib, who shall fall by the Sword, or rather is fallen by it, in his own Land, when this Messenger of glad Tydings came, Isa. 37.7. with 37, and 38 verses.

Neither as a conquerour who beareth all down before him, nor as a Triumpher glorying in his acquists which in progress he takes view of.

Murther'd by his Sons, his Kingdom shaken by intestine troubles arising on the slaughter of his Army, and an Anarchie, or interregnum whilest the two Brethren Parricides war'd with the third for the Crown, and all three were in that juncture as in an opportune season, invaded, subdued, and destroyed by Merodach Baladan King of Babylon, vid▪ Isa. 10. tot.

Marginal references: Isa. 52.7. Rom. 10.15.; Heb. feast.; Heb. Belial.