Nahum 2:1-6

The Destruction of Nineveh

1 ¹The scatterer has come up against you. ²Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle;^[a] collect all your strength.

2 For ³the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ⁴ruined their branches.

3 The shield of his mighty men is red; ⁵his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.

4 ⁶The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.

5 He remembers ⁷his officers; ⁸they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower^[b] is set up.

6 ⁹The river gates are opened; the palace ¹⁰melts away;

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Nahum 2:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NAHUM 2

This chapter gives an account of the destruction of the city of Nineveh; describes the instruments of it as very terrible and powerful, and not to be resisted, Na 2:1-4. The manner of taking it, the flight of its inhabitants, and the spoil of its riches and treasures, Na 2:5-10 and the king and the princes thereof, compared to a lion, and a lion's whelp, are insulted as being without a den or dwelling place, because of their cruelty and ravening, for which the Lord was against them, and threatened them with utter ruin, which he brought upon them, Na 2:11-13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 10

1. [Jeremiah 51:20]
2. [Jeremiah 51:12]
3. [Isaiah 37:31]
4. See Psalms 80:8-13; Isaiah 5:1-7
5. [Ezekiel 23:14, 15]
6. [Nahum 3:2]
7. Nahum 3:18
8. Jeremiah 46:12
9. [Isaiah 45:1]
10. [Isaiah 14:31]

Footnotes 2

[a]. Hebrew gird your loins
[b]. Or the mantelet

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