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Nahum 2:2-12

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2 For the LORD will restore the 1splendor of Jacob 2Like the splendor of Israel, Even though devastators have devastated them And 3destroyed their vine branches.
3 The shields of his mighty men are colored red, The warriors are dressed in 4scarlet, The chariots are enveloped in flashing steel When he is prepared to march, And the cypress 5spears are brandished.
4 The 6chariots race madly in the streets, They rush wildly in the squares, Their appearance is like torches, They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.
5 He remembers his 7nobles; They 8stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up.
6 The gates of the rivers are opened And the palace is dissolved.
7 It is fixed: She is stripped, she is carried away, And her handmaids are 9moaning like the sound of doves, 10Beating on their breasts.
8 Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now they are fleeing; "Stop, stop," But 11no one turns back.
9 Plunder the silver! Plunder the 12gold! For there is no limit to the treasure - Wealth from every kind of desirable object.
10 She is 13emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! 14Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body And all their 15faces are grown pale!
11 Where is the den of the lions And the feeding place of the 16young lions, Where * the lion, lioness and lion's cub prowled, With nothing to disturb them?
12 The lion tore enough for his cubs, Killed enough for his lionesses, And filled his lairs with prey And his dens with torn flesh.
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Nahum 2:2-12 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 16

  • 1. Isaiah 60:15
  • 2. Ezekiel 37:21-23
  • 3. Psalms 80:12, 13
  • 4. Ezekiel 23:14, 15
  • 5. Job 39:23
  • 6. Isaiah 66:15; Jeremiah 4:13; Ezekiel 26:10; Nahum 3:2, 3
  • 7. Nahum 3:18
  • 8. Jeremiah 46:12
  • 9. Isaiah 38:14; Isaiah 59:11
  • 10. Isaiah 32:12
  • 11. Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 47:3
  • 12. Revelation 18:12, 16
  • 13. Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 34:10-13; Nahum 2:2
  • 14. Psalms 22:14; Isaiah 13:7, 8; Ezekiel 21:7
  • 15. Joel 2:6
  • 16. Isaiah 5:29

Footnotes 8

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