Nahum 2:1

\1:15\See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

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He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

In Context

2\2:1\A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.

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Cross References

Psalms 50:14Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

Isaiah 14:6He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

Isaiah 29:8And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

Jeremiah 25:9See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.

Jeremiah 50:23How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:20You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:1

We now come closer to Nineveh, that great city; she took, not warning by the destruction of her armies and the fall of her king, and therefore may expect, since she persists in her enmity to God, that he will proceed in his controversy with her. Here is foretold, I. The approach of the enemy that should destroy Nineveh, and the terror of his military preparations, ver. 1-5 . II. The taking of the city, ver. 6 . III. The captivity of the queen, the flight of the inhabitants, the seizing of all its wealth, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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