Nahum 2:5

The chariot shall rage in the streets, 1 they shall jostle one against another in the rechovot, 1 they shall seem like flaming torches, 1 they shall dart about like the lightnings. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

In Context

4The mogen (shield) of his gibborim is made red, 1 the anshei chayil (valiant men) are in scarlet; 1 the chariot shall flash like fire 1 in the day of its array, 1 and the spears shall be brandished. 1

6He + 2:6 the Assyrian king shall remember his mighty ones; 1 they stumble in their walk; 1 they shall make haste to the chomah (wall) of it, + 2:6 Nineveh 1 and the defense shall be prepared. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 21:5[They are] setting the shulchan, spreading the tzafit (dining carpet), 1 to eat, to drink; 1 arise, ye sarim (princes), and anoint the mogen. 1

Jeremiah 50:29Call together the archers against Bavel; all ye that bend the keshet, encamp against it all around; let none thereof escape; repay her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her; for she hath arrogantly defied Hashem Kadosh Yisroel.

Nahum 3:3The parash (horsemen, cavalry) charging, 1 the flash of the cherev and the glittering spear; 1 and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of dead bodies; 1 and there is no end of their geviyot (corpses); 1 they stumble over their geviyot; 1

Habakkuk 1:8Their susim also are swifter than the leopards, 1 keener than the evening wolves; 1 and their parash (cavalry) shall charge ahead, 1 and their parash shall come from afar; 1 they shall fly as the nesher (eagle), swooping to devour. 1

Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:2-11

The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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