Nahum 2:13
“See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts. 1 I will burn your chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. 1 I will cut off your prey from your land, and the voices of your messengers will be heard no more.”
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Joshua 11:9Joshua did to them just as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung the horses and burned the chariots.
2 Kings 18:19So the chief commander said to them to tell Hezekiah what the great king, the king of Assyria, said: “What is the source of your confidence?
2 Kings 19:9Then Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush and Egypt had mobilized to fight against him, so he sent messengers again to Hezekiah with a message:
2 Chronicles 32:9After this, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem (now he was in front of Lachish, and all his army was with him), to Hezekiah, king of Judah, and to all of Judah who were in Jerusalem. He said,
Psalms 46:9He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; 1 he breaks the bow and cuts the spear into pieces; 1 he burns up the shields. 1
Isaiah 33:1Woe to you, destroyer who has not been destroyed! 2 Woe to the betrayer whom they have not betrayed! 1 When you stop destroying, you will be destroyed. 2 When you stop betraying, they will betray you. 1
Matthew Henry on Nahum 2:12-13
The Judgment of Nineveh. ( b. c. 710.) 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. 13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off… Read the whole commentary →