OLD TESTAMENT

Nahum 1:14

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The LORD has commanded concerning you: “No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, I will cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

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Verse 14. Commandment. That is, a decree concerning thee, O king of Ninive, thy seed shall fail, and so forth Challoner.—His son Asarhaddon succeeded; but soon the line was extinct. Worthington.—No alarm shall be spread by thee.—Grave. Sennacherib was slain in the temple: (Isaiah 37:38. Calmet.) or the idols were deemed unclean by the victors. Eurip. Troad. Bible.

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