Nahum 2:9

But Nineveh is like a pool of mayim; 1 and her mayim is draining away. 1 Stop, stop, shall they cry; 1 but no one turns back. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

In Context

8Her + 2:8 Ninevehʼs golus (exile) is decreed, she shall be carried away, 1 her slave girls moaning like the kol yonim (voice of doves), 1 beating their breasts. 1

10Take ye the plunder of kesef, take the plunder of zahav; 1 for there is no end of the treasures, 1 heaps of kol keli chemdah (every delightful vessel). 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:10And when the year was expired, HaMelech Nevukhadnetzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the kelei chemdat Beis Hashem, and made Tzidkiyahu his brother Melech over Yehudah and Yerushalayim.

Isaiah 33:4And your shalal (booty, plunder, gain) shall be gathered 1 like the gathering of the locusts; 1 as the swarm of grasshoppers 1 shall men pounce upon them. 1

Jeremiah 46:5What do I see? They are filled with terror and retreat! 1 And their gibborim are beaten down, 1 and are fled speedily, and look not back; 1 for fear was all around, saith Hashem. 1

Ezekiel 26:12And they shall plunder thy riches, and pillage thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy chomot, and destroy thy batim (houses) of chemdah (desire); + 26:12 i.e., thy finest dwellings and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy aphar in the midst of the mayim.

Nahum 2:12Where is the ma'on arayot (den of lions), 1 and the feeding place of the young lions, 1 where the aryeh, even the lioness, 1 walked with their cubs, and none made them afraid? 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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