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Matthew Poole and continuators on Nahum 3:6

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Nahum3:6

6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile , and will set thee as a gazing-stock .

By the Chaldean and Medish Army which God will stir up against the Assyrian Monarchy.

As is done to lewd Women.

Nineveh had made her self morally evil, and vile by sinning: now she shall be made penally vile.

O Nineveh.

At which they shall wonder and be astonished, some shall take warning too; so Zenacherib's Tomb was a standing Monument to put men in mind that God is to be feared, and that men looking on it may reflect on their insolence, and decline it. So Senacherib's Tomb-stone with his Statue: Of which chap. 1. ver. 14.

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