Teks -- Nahum 3:10 (NET)

3:10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Nah 3:10

Notwithstanding all her might, she was overcome.

JFB: Nah 3:10 - cast lots for her honourable men

They divided them among themselves by lot, as slaves (Joe 3:3).

Clarke: Nah 3:10 - They cast lots for her honorable men

They cast lots for her honorable men - This refers still to the city called populous No. And the custom of casting lots among the commanders, for the prisoners which they had taken, is here referred to

Clarke: Nah 3:10 - Great men were bound in chains

Great men were bound in chains - These were reserved to grace the triumph of the victor.

Calvin: Nah 3:10 - Yet,

Yet, he says, she departed into captivity a captive; that is, the inhabitants of Alexandria have been banished, and the city become as it were captive, for its inhabitants were driven here and there. Dashed, he says, have been their little ones at the head of every street The Prophet means, that so great a power as that of Alexandria did not prevent the conquerors to exercise towards her the most barbarous cruelty; for it was a savage act to dash little children against stones, who ought on account of their tender age, to have been spared. There was indeed no reason for raging against them, for they could not have been deemed enemies. But yet the Prophet says that Alexandria had been thus treated; and he said this, that Nineveh might not trust in her strength, and thus perversely despise God’s judgment, which he now denounced on it. He adds, They cast lots on her princess and bound were her great men with fetters In saying that lots were cast, he refers to an ancient custom; for when there was any dispute respecting a captive, the lot was cast: as for instance, when two had taken one man, to prevent contention, it was by lot determined who was to be his master. So then he says that lots were cast on their princes. This usually happened to the common people and to the lowest slaves; but the Prophet says that the conquerors spared not even the princes. They were therefore treated as the lowest class; and though they were great princes, they were led into captivity and bound with chains, in the same manner with the meanest and the lowest of the people. They were not treated according to their rank; and there was no differences between the chief men and the most degraded of the humbler classes; for even the very princes were so brought down, that their lot differed not from that of the wretched; for as common people are usually treated with contempt, so were the chiefs of Alexandria treated by their enemies.

TSK: Nah 3:10 - she carried // her young // at // cast

she carried : Psa 33:16, Psa 33:17; Isa 20:4

her young : 2Ki 8:12; Psa 137:8; Isa 13:6; Hos 13:16; Amo 1:13

at : Lam 2:19, Lam 4:1

cast : Joe 3:3; Oba 1:11

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Nah 3:10 - She was carried away // Her young children // Were dashed in pieces // They cast lots // Honourable men // Great men // Were bound in chains of iron

She was carried away: it is probable this might be about thirty years before; for about A.M. 3207, as Calvisius, or 3277, as Archbishop Usher, Sabacon king of Ethiopia invaded Egypt, took Bocchoris, and burnt him, which was not likely to be done without slaughter of men and sacking of towns, among which time No might be ruined. Now, as Calvisius and Helvicus account, about A.M. 3238, or as Usher, 3307, Nahum appears and flourisheth. She went into captivity: this ingemination confirms the certainty of the thing, and intends to affect the Ninevites the more.

Her young children their innocent age was no safeguard to them.

Were dashed in pieces first barbarously murdered, and then trod under foot in the streets, as was usual with those cruel, bloody soldiers, 2Ki 8:12 Psa 137:9 Isa 13:16 .

They cast lots either to put a scorn upon them, or else to prevent any contest about them, being taken among many others together, and none could say, This is my prisoner.

Honourable men citizens of note, or some officers or governors.

Great men great in place, strength, valour, wisdom, and so likely to do the conqueror a displeasure, should they not be secured.

Were bound in chains of iron or manacled, used as worst slaves.

Haydock: Nah 3:10 - Captivity // Fetters

Captivity. It was afterwards re-established and taken by Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) ---

Fetters, or stocks. (Haydock)

Gill: Nah 3:10 - 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

Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity,.... Not by Nebuchadnezzar; though this city was afterwards taken, and its inhabitants carried captive, by that monarch, as was foretold, Jer 46:25 but the prophet here does not predict an event to be accomplished, and instance in that, and argue from it, which could have no effect on Nineveh and its inhabitants, or be an example or terror to them; but refers to what had been done, a recent fact, and which they were well acquainted with. Aben Ezra says, this city No was a city of the land of Egypt, which the king of the Chaldeans took as he went to Nineveh; but when, and by whom it was taken, is nowhere said. According to Bishop Usher ^s and Dean Prideaux ^t, the destruction of the city of Thebes was by Sennacherib, in his expedition against Egypt, which he harassed for three years together, from one end to the other; at which time Sevechus, the son of Sabacon, or So, the Ethiopian, was king of Egypt; and Egypt and Ethiopia were as one country, and helped each other; but could not secure this city from falling into the hands of Sennacherib, about three years before he besieged Jerusalem; and so, according to Mr. Whiston ^u, it was destroyed three years before the army of Sennacherib was destroyed at Jerusalem:

her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: against the walls of the houses, or upon the stones and pavements of the streets; which cruelties were often used by conquerors upon innocent babes at the sacking of cities, Psa 137:9,

and they cast lots for her honourable men; the soldiers did, who should have them, and sell them for slaves; which was done without any regard to their birth and breeding, Joe 3:3,

and all her great men were bound in chains; as nobles may be meant by "honourable men", by "great men" may be designed the gentry, merchants, and others; these were taken, and bound in iron chains, handcuffed, and pinioned, and so led captive into a foreign land; and Nineveh might expect the same treatment.