The noise of a whip
Of a horseman or chariot driver whipping his horses to make speed
to Nineveh, and enter into it, so near as to be heard by the
inhabitants of it; and is thus represented in order to strike
terror into them: and the noise of the rattling of the
wheels;
that is, of the chariots upon the stones, whose drivers drove
Jehu like, making the utmost haste they could to get in first,
and seize the prey: and of the pransing horses;
or bounding steeds, upon a full gallop; either with horsemen on
them riding full speed to partake of the booty; or in chariots,
in which they caper and prance, and shake the ground as they go;
hence it follows: and of the jumping chariots;
which, through the swiftness of the motion, seem to leap and
dance as they run along.
Nahum 3:2
