--- title: "Nahum 1 - Study King James Bible with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary" description: "Read Nahum 1 with keil and delitzsch old testament commentary commentary. 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/keil-and-delitzsch-old-testament-commentary/nahum/1" --- [ Read](/kjv/nahum/1)[ Commentary](/study/nahum/1)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/nahum/1) Audio 1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 2 God *is* jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and *is* furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth *wrath* for his enemies.** 3 The LORD *is* slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit *the wicked:* the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds *are* the dust of his feet. 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth. 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.* 7 The LORD *is* good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.* 8 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. 9 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10 For while *they be* folden together *as* thorns, and while they are drunken *as* drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. 11 There is *one* come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.* 12 Thus saith the LORD; Though *they be* quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.** 13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. 14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, *that* no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile. 15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, 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.** [Micah 7](/study/micah/7) [Nahum 2](/study/nahum/2) ## Commentary To verse 1 The heading runs thus: *“Burden concerning Nineveh; book of the prophecy of Nahum of Elkosh.”* The first sentence gives the substance and object, the second the form and author, of the proclamation which follows. משּׂא signifies a burden, from נשׂא , to lift up, to carry, to heave. This meaning has very properly been retained by Jonathan, Aquila, Jerome, Luther, and others, in the headings to the prophetic oracle. Jerome observes on [Habakkuk 1:1](/kjv/habakkuk/1/1): “Massa never occurs in the title, except when it is evidently grave and full of weight and labour.” On the other hand, the lxx have generally rendered it λῆμμα in the headings to the oracles, or even ὅρασις, ὅραμα, ῥῆμα (Isaiah 13ff., [Isaiah 30:6](/kjv/isaiah/30/6)); and most of the modern commentators since Cocceius and Vitringa, following this example, have attributed to the word the meaning of “utterance,” and derived it from נשׂא , *effari*. But נשׂא has no more this meaning than נשׂא קול can mean to utter the voice, either in [Exodus 20:7](/kjv/exodus/20/7) and [Exodus 23:1](/kjv/exodus/23/1), to which Hupfeld appeals in support of it, or in [2 Kings 9:25](/kjv/2-kings/9/25), to which others appeal. The same may be said of משּׂא , which never means *effatum*, utterance, and is never placed before simple announcements of salvation, but only before oracles of a threatening nature. [Zechariah 9:1](/kjv/zechariah/9/1) and [Zechariah 12:1](/kjv/zechariah/12/1) form no exception to this rule. Delitzsch (on [Isaiah 13:1](/kjv/isaiah/13/1)) observes, with regard to the latter passage, that the promise has at least a dark foil,[and in Nahum 9:1](/kjv/-and-in-nahum/9/1)ff. the heathen nations of the Persian and Macedonian world-monarchy are threatened with a divine judgment which will break in pieces their imperial glory, and through which they are to be brought to conversion to Jehovah; “and it is just in this that the burden consists, which the word of God lays upon these nations, that they may be brought to conversion through such a judgment from God” (Kliefoth). Even in [Proverbs 30:1](/kjv/proverbs/30/1) and [Proverbs 31:1](/kjv/proverbs/31/1) *Massâ'* does not mean utterance. The words of Agur in [Proverbs 30:1](/kjv/proverbs/30/1) are a heavy burden, which is rolled upon the natural and conceited reason; they are punitive in their character, reproving human forwardness in the strongest terms; and in [Proverbs 31:1](/kjv/proverbs/31/1) *Massâ'* is the discourse with which king Lemuel reproved his mother. For the thorough vindication of this meaning of *Massâ'*, by an exposition of all the passages which have been adduced in support of the rendering “utterance,” see Hengstenberg, *Christology*, on [Zechariah 9:1](/kjv/zechariah/9/1), and O. Strauss on this passage. For *Nineveh*, see the comm. on [Jonah 1:2](/kjv/jonah/1/2). The burden, i.e., the threatening words, concerning Nineveh are defined in the second clause as *sēpher châzōn*, book of the seeing (or of the seen) of Nahum, i.e., of that which Nahum saw in spirit and prophesied concerning Nineveh. The unusual combination of *sēpher* and *châzōn*, which only occurs here, is probably intended to show that Nahum simply committed his prophecy concerning Nineveh to writing, and did not first of all announce it orally before the people. 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