Nahum 3:13 BSB — MannaFest

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

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ASV

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.

KJV

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women,.... Or like women, weak and feeble, fearful and timorous; frightened at the first approach of the enemy; run away, and run up and down in the utmost consternation and distress, having neither skill nor courage to oppose them; some regard may be had to the effeminacy of their king; see Nah 2:

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women - Fierce, fearless, hard, iron men, such as their warriors still are portrayed by themselves on their monuments, they whom no toll wearied, no peril daunted, shall be, one and all, their whole “people, women.” So Jeremiah to Babylon, “they shall become, became, women” Jer 50:37; Jer 51:30. He sets it before the eyes. “Behold, thy people are women;” against nature they are such, not in tenderness but in weakness and fear. Among the signs of the Day of Judgment, it stands, “men’s hearts failing them for fear” Luk 21:

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֨ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
עַמֵּ֤ךְ	'a.Mekh	people your	H5971 →
נָשִׁים֙	na.Shim	[are] women	H802 →
בְּקִרְבֵּ֔ךְ	be.kir.Bekh	in midst your	H7130 →
לְאֹ֣יְבַ֔יִךְ	le.'O.ye.Va.yikh	to enemies your	H341 →
פָּת֥וֹחַ	pa.To.ach	certainly <to open>	H6605 →
נִפְתְּח֖וּ	nif.te.Chu	they will be opened	H6605 →
שַׁעֲרֵ֣י	sha.'a.Rei	[the] gates of	H8179 →
אַרְצֵ֑ךְ	'ar.Tzekh	land your	H776 →
אָכְלָ֥ה	'a.khe.Lah	it will consume	H398 →
אֵ֖שׁ	'esh	fire	H784 →
בְּרִיחָֽיִך׃	be.ri.Cha.yikh	bars your	H1280 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 50:37
A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:30
  The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
leads to
- Isaiah 19:16
  In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 50:36–37
  A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror.
- Lamentations 2:9
  Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find…
- Isaiah 13:7–8
  Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
- Psalms 76:5
  The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
Through
Isaiah 19:16
In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:37
  A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
- Isaiah 11:15
  The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men…

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Nahum

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Nahum