Nahum 3:2
The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine. The prey departs not.
Cross References
Judges 5:22Then the horse hoofs stamped by reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.
Isaiah 9:5For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
Joel 2:4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses, and as horsemen, so do they run.
Nahum 2:3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress [spears] are brandished.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:2-8
The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; 2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. 3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the… Read the whole commentary →