THe burden] That is, a prophesie of threatnings and evils. Isaiah 13:1. Jeremiah 23:33. of Nineveh] Zephaniah 2:13. The head of the Assyrian Empire, which was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar the great King of Chaldea, who also destroyed Nineveh. Isaiah 10:5. Ezekiel 31:3. Zephaniah 2:13. The book of the vision of Nahum] The vision or revelation which God commanded Nahum to write of a ruine to Nineveh. the Elkoshite] Of a City or Castle, called Elcosh; which ancient Histories have affirmed to have been within the Tribe of Simeon: but the Scripture makes no mention thereof.