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Nahum 2:8-13

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8 1Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away.[a] "Halt! Halt!" they cry, but 2none turns back.
9 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
10 3Desolate! Desolation and ruin! 4Hearts melt and 5knees tremble; 6anguish is in all loins; 7all faces grow pale!
11 Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of 8the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with 9none to disturb?
12 10The lion tore enough for his cubs and 11strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
13 12Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and 13I will burn your[b] chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and 14the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
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Nahum 2:8-13 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 14

  • 1. See Nahum 1:1
  • 2. Jeremiah 46:5
  • 3. See Zephaniah 2:13-15
  • 4. Psalms 22:14; Isaiah 13:7
  • 5. Daniel 5:6
  • 6. Isaiah 21:3
  • 7. Joel 2:6
  • 8. Isaiah 5:29; Jeremiah 2:15
  • 9. See Isaiah 17:2
  • 10. [Ezekiel 19:3]
  • 11. [ver. 9; Nahum 3:1]
  • 12. Nahum 3:5; [Zephaniah 2:5]; See Ezekiel 13:8
  • 13. [Psalms 46:9]
  • 14. [2 Kings 19:9, 23]

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  • [b]. Hebrew her
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