Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
with an overrunning flood—that is, with irresistible might which overruns every barrier like a flood. This image is often applied to overwhelming armies of invaders. Also of calamity in general (Psalms 32:6; Psalms 42:7; Psalms 90:5). There is, perhaps, a special allusion to the mode of Nineveh's capture by the Medo-Babylonian army; namely, through a flood in the river which broke down the wall twenty furlongs (see on Nahum 2:6; Isaiah 8:8; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 11:10, Daniel 11:22, Daniel 11:40).
end of the place thereof—Nineveh is personified as a queen; and "her place" of residence (the Hebrew for "thereof" is feminine) is the city itself (Nahum 2:8), [MAURER]. Or, He shall so utterly destroy Nineveh that its place cannot be found; Nahum 3:17 confirms this (compare Psalms 37:36; Daniel 2:35; Revelation 12:8; Revelation 20:11).
darkness—the severest calamities.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Nahum 1:8:
Nahum 1:1
Nahum 1:7
Nahum 1:7
Nahum 2:11
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