Nahum 3:12

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; if shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

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In The King James Version

All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

In Context

11“You too, Nineveh, will be drunk with fear; you too will seek a place of escape from the foe.

13Your troops are weak as women before your foes; the gates of your land are wide open; your defenses burned down.

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Cross References

Habakkuk 1:10At kings they scoff, and princes are sport to them. They laugh at every fortress, and heap up earth to take it.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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