Nahum 3:2

The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and of prancing horses, and of the skipping chariots.

Leeser Tanakh

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

1Woe to the city of blood! it is all full of lies and robbery; never ceaseth the preying;

3Horsemen mount, and there are the flaming sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and heaps of carcasses; and without end are the corpses; they stumble on their corpses;

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Cross References

Judges 5:22Then were crushed the hoofs of the horses, through the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.

Isaiah 9:5(9:4) For all the weapons of the fighter in the battle's tumult, and the garment rolled in blood, shall be burnt, become food for fire.

Joel 2:4Like the appearance of horses is its appearance; and like horsemen, so do they run.

Nahum 2:3(2:4) The shields of his mighty men are made red, the valiant men are [clothed] in scarlet: with the fire of the steel the chariots [glitter] on the day when he prepareth himself [for battle], and the spears are 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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