Nahum 1:4
iHe rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
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Exodus 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Joshua 3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
Joshua 3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Psalms 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Psalms 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
Psalms 114:5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Matthew 8:26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
Isaiah 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
Isaiah 51:10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
he once did rebuke, as Exo 14:21; he still can, as a lord rebuketh his servant, or a general rebukes his soldier, by word or look, Isa 1 Isa 2.
literally understood, or figuratively, it imports still that he can deliver his people, and destroy his adversaries, as of old he did.
his word or will doth as speedily do this thing, as it doth proceed from God; he commands, and it is done.
so Jordan saw or heard the rebuke of our God, and fled, or was driven back, Jos 3:15,16 Psa 114:3; and what he once did upon Jordan, that he can do on all other rivers: and so are we to understand the words.
it lay eastward of Jordan, was the kingdom of Og; it was famous for oaks, Eze 27:6; for cattle also, as bulls, Psa 22:12, and rains, Deu 32:14; and was given to the half tribe of Manasseh.
grows barren, as if under a consumptive languishing, is not longer sufficient to feed the cattle that were wont to feed and grow fat upon it.
a very fruitful mountain, either in the confines of Zebulun and Asher northward, Jos 12:22, where Elijah by fire from heaven contended with and convicted the Baalites; or else this Carmel might be that where Nabal dwelt, 1Sa 25:2, famous for its rich pastures; this was more southward than the other, and not far from Hebron.
whatever flourished and was beautiful, trees, their blossoms, and the flowers which were wont to be the glory of it.
a mountain that runs from the coast of the Phoenician Sea westward, for one hundred and twenty-five miles more or less eastward; and verging toward Arabia, it is the north boundary of Judea, and divides it front Syria; famous for its fruitfulness, as for its height.
loseth its strength and virtue; both the product, and the very soil that produceth too, soon fall into a consumption.