The chariots shall rage in the streets
In the streets of Nineveh when taken; where they shall be drove
in a furious manner from place to place, the men in them
breathing out slaughter and death wherever they came. Kimchi
understands this of the chariots of the Ninevites; who shall
drive about in them in the streets of the city like madmen; not
daring to go out to fight the enemy, being mightier and more
numerous than they. They shall justle one against another
in the broad ways;
because of their numbers, and the haste they shall make to spoil
and plunder the city; or the Ninevites shall justle one against
another, in their hurry and confusion to make their escape.
They shall seem like torches;
either the chariots of the Medes and Chaldeans, for the reasons
given in the preceding verse ( Nahum 2:3 ) ; or they
themselves, because of their fierceness and cruelty; or the faces
of the Ninevites, being covered with shame, so Kimchi; see (
Isaiah 13:8 )
. They shall run like the lightnings;
exceeding swiftly, with irresistible force and power; the above
writer interprets this of the Ninevites also, running from one
end of their city to the other in the utmost confusion, not
knowing what to do; but the whole of these two verses ( Nahum 2:3 Nahum 2:4 ) seem to be a
description of their enemies.
Nahum 2:4
