Nahum 2:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
2 He describeth the victories of the Chaldeans against the Assyrians.
1 The [a]destroyer is come before thy face: keep the munition: look to the way: make thy loins strong: increase thy strength mightily.
2 For the Lord hath [b]turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and [c]marred their vine branches.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, [d]the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and [e]the fir trees shall tremble.
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- Nahum 2:1 That is, Nebuchadnezzar is in readiness to destroy the Assyrians: and the Prophet derideth the enterprises of the Assyrians which prepared to resist him.
- Nahum 2:2 Seeing God hath punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them, read Isa. 10:12.
- Nahum 2:2 Signifying, that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.
- Nahum 2:3 Both to fear the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon espy blood one of another to discourage them.
- Nahum 2:3 Meaning, their spears should shake and crash together.
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