Nahum 3:2
The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and] violence; the prey departeth not.
Cross References
Judges 5:22Then did the horse-hoofs clatter with the coursings, The coursings of their steeds.
Isaiah 9:5For every boot of him that is shod for the tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be for burning, fuel for fire.
Joel 2:4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so they run.
Nahum 2:3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots [glitter] with the sheen of steel, in the day of his preparation, and the 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 →