Nahum 1:14

“And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, etc.] This is directed to Sennacherib king of Assyria, as the Targum expresses it; and so Jarchi and Kimchi; and signifies the decree of God concerning him, what he had determined to do with him, and how things would be ordered in Providence towards him, agreeably to his design and resolution: [that] no more of thy name be sown; which is not to be understood that he should have no son and heir to succeed him; for Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead, (<121937>2 Kings 19:37); and after him, according to Ptolemy’s canon, Saosduchinus and Chyniladanus but the memory of his name should no be spread in the earth; or the fame of it, with…”

“And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, O Assyrian - In the word “I have afflicted thee,” the land of Israel is addressed, as usual in Hebrew, in the feminine; here, a change of gender in Hebrew shows the person addressed to be different. : “By His command alone, and the word of His power, He cut off the race of the Assyrian, as he says in Wisdom, of Egypt, “Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven, out of Thy royal throne; as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction, and brought Thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death,” (Wisd. 18:15, 16), or else it may be, He gave command to the Angels His Ministers.…”

“Thee - Thee, Sennacherib, and the whole kingdom of Assyria. Be sown - None shall bear thy name, and title; but thy kingdom shall be swallowed up. Nahum 1:15”

“given: Psa 71:3; Isa 33:13 that: Psa 109:13; Pro 10:7; Isa 14:20-22 out: Exo 12:12; Lev 26:30; Isa 19:1, Isa 46:1, Isa 46:2; Jer 50:2 I will make: Nah 3:4-6; Kg2 19:37; Ch2 32:21 for: Sa1 3:13; Dan 11:21 Next: Nahum Chapter 2”