Nahum 3:2
The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Cross References
Judges 5:22Then the hooves of horses thundered—the mad galloping of his stallions.
Isaiah 9:5For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
Joel 2:4Their appearance is like that of horses, and they gallop like swift steeds.
Nahum 2:3The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been 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 →