Nahum 3:4

This is happening because of the lustful actions of the beautiful prostitute, the expert in witchcraft, 1 who sells nations through her prostitution, and peoples through her acts of witchcraft. 1

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Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

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3There are attacking horsemen, 1 flashing swords, glittering spears, 1 heaps of corpses, great piles of bodies. 1 There is no end to the bodies; their attackers stumble over them. 1

5“See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—I will raise up your skirt over your face 1 and show your private parts to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 23:15In that day, Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of a king. After the end of seventy years there will happen in Tyre something like in the song of the prostitute. 1

Isaiah 47:8So now hear this, you who love pleasure and sit securely; 1 you who say in your heart, “I exist, and there is no one else like me; 1 I will never sit as a widow, nor will I ever experience loss of children.” 1

Isaiah 47:12Persist in casting your spells and your many sorceries 1 which you have faithfully recited since your childhood; 1 perhaps you will be successful, perhaps you will scare away disaster. 1

Ezekiel 16:35Therefore, you prostitute, listen to the word of Yahweh.

Revelation 18:2He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 1 “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! 2 She has become a dwelling place for demons, 1 a refuge for every unclean spirit, 2 and a refuge for every unclean and detestable bird. 1

Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp 2 will not shine in you anymore. 1 The voices of the bridegroom and the bride 2 will not be heard in you anymore, 1 for your merchants were the princes of the earth, 2 and the nations were deceived by your sorcery. 1

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:2-8

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the… Read the whole commentary →

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