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John Gill's Exposition on Nahum 2:10
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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She is empty, and void, and waste, etc.] The city of Nineveh, empty of inhabitants, being killed, or having fled; and stripped of all its treasures and riches by the enemies; its walls and houses demolished and pulled down, and laid in ruins, and become a heap of rubbish; (see Gill on “Na 1:8”). Various words are here used to ascertain and confirm the thing; and there is an elegant play on words or likeness of sounds, which our language will not express: and the heart melteth; the heart of every inhabitant of Nineveh melted with fear at the approach of their enemies, their entrance into the city, and plunder of it; flowed like water, or melted like wax; (see <192214>Psalm 22:14): and the knees smite together; like people in a fright, and when a panic has seized them; and as it was with Belshazzar, (<270506>Daniel 5:6): and much pain [is] in all loins; like that of women in travail; or of persons in a sudden fright, which gives them a pain in their backs at once: and the faces of them all gather blackness; like a pot, as the Targum adds; being in great distress and disconsolation, which make men appear in a dismal hue, and their countenances look very dark and gloomy; (see <290206> Joel 2:6).
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