Nahum 3:2

Listen to the noise: whips crack, wheels clatter, horses gallop, chariots rattle!

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In The King James Version

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

In Context

1What a disaster is coming upon this murderous city with all its treachery! It is full of wealth it has robbed, and always has plenty of victims.

3Horsemen charge, swords flash, spears glitter! Many dead, piles of corpses, countless bodies—so many that people stumble over them.

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Cross References

Judges 5:22Then the horses' hooves flailed loudly, his stallions stampeded.

Isaiah 9:5For every army boot that noisily trampled people down, and every uniform soaked in blood—they are going to be burned, fuel for the fire.

Joel 2:4They have the appearance of horses; they charge like cavalry.

Nahum 2:3The shields of his chief soldiers are red; the warriors wear scarlet. His chariots flash like fire in the sunlight as he prepares for battle. Spears with their wooden shafts are held up and shaken.

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 →

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