Nahum 1:8

“But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, etc.] Of Nineveh, against whom this prophecy was, and upon whom it lay as a burden, (<340101>Nahum 1:1); and now though the Lord was good to them that trust in him, and a strong hold to them in a time of trouble; yet he was determined to destroy their enemies the Assyrians, and Nineveh their chief city; and that by the means of a powerful army, which, like a flood or inundation of water breaking in, overruns and carries all before it; and very fitly may the Medes and Babylonians, who joined together in an expedition against Nineveh, be compared to such a flood for their number and force; since, as the historian…”

“But with an overrunning flood He will make an utter end of the place thereof - that is, of Nineveh, although not as yet named, except in the title of the prophecy, yet present to the prophet’s mind and his hearers, and that the more solemnly, as being the object of the wrath of God, so that, although unnamed, it would be known so to be. Image and reality, the first destruction and the last which it pictures, meet in the same words. Nineveh itself was overthrown through the swelling of the rivers which flowed around it and seemed to be its defense (see the note at Nahum 2:6). Then also, the flood is the tide of the armies, gathered from all quarters, Babylonians , Medes, Persians, Arabians,…”

“An over - running flood - His judgments like a mighty flood that overflows all banks, shall swallow up Assyria. Thereof - Of Nineveh, that is Nineveh itself. Darkness - Troubles, and desolating afflictions. Nahum 1:9”

“with: Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8, Isa 28:17; Eze 13:13; Dan 9:26, Dan 11:10, Dan 11:22, Dan 11:40; Amo 8:8, Amo 9:5, Amo 9:6; Mat 7:27; Pe2 3:6, Pe2 3:7 the place: Nah 1:1, Nah 2:8; Zep 2:13 darkness: Job 30:15; Pro 4:19; Isa 8:22; Jer 13:16; Mat 8:12 Nahum 1:9”