Nahum 3:2

But now there is the noise of whips and the sound of rattling wheels, 1 prancing horses, and bounding chariots. 1

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The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

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1Woe to the city full of blood! 1 It is all full of lies and stolen property; victims are always in her. 1

3There are attacking horsemen, 1 flashing swords, glittering spears, 1 heaps of corpses, great piles of bodies. 1 There is no end to the bodies; their attackers stumble over them. 1

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Cross References

Judges 5:22Then came the sound of horses' hooves— 1 galloping, the galloping of his mighty ones. 1

Isaiah 9:5For every boot treading in the tumult 1 and the garments rolled in blood 1 will be burned, fuel for the fire. 1

Joel 2:4The army's appearance is like horses, 1 and they run like horsemen. 1

Nahum 2:3The shields of his mighty men are red, and the soldiers are clothed in scarlet; 1 the chariots flash with their metal on the day that they are made ready, and the cypress spears are waved in the air. 1

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 →

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