36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-37)Sometimes it was long ere prophecies were accomplished and promises performed; but here the word was no sooner spoken than the work was done. I. The army of Assyria was entirely routed. That night which immediately followed the sending of this message to Hezekiah, when the enemy had just set down before the city and were preparing (as we now say) to open the trenches, that night was the main body…
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