Nahum 3:10

Yet she was exiled and made captive. On all corners of the streets her infants were dashed to pieces. Lots were cast for her nobles, all her great ones were bound in chains.

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Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

In Context

9Her strength was Ethiopia and Egypt. The Libyans were her helpers, and Put with its countless people.

11“You too, Nineveh, will be drunk with fear; you too will seek a place of escape from the foe.

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Cross References

Psalms 137:8Babylon, despoiler, happy are those who pay you back for all you have done to us.

Joel 3:3They have cast lots for my people. They have traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, and drunk it.

Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:9-19

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea? 9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. 10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. 11… Read the whole commentary →

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