Nahum 2:1-10

2:1

scatter <06327> [He that dasheth in pieces. or, The disperser, or, hammer.]

Guard <05341> [keep.]

2:2

restore <07725> [hath.]

majesty ... Jacob ...... majesty <01347 03290> [excellency of Jacob as the excellency. or, the pride of Jacob as the pride.]

Lord ................... plundered <03068 01238> [for.]

2:3

dyed red <0119> [made.]

dressed in scarlet garments <08529> [in scarlet. or, dyed scarlet. flaming. or, fiery. the fir tree.]

2:4

chariots <07393> [chariots.]

look like <04758> [they shall seem. Heb. their show.]

2:5

orders <02142> [recount.]

officers <0117> [worthies. or, gallants. they shall stumble.]

covered siege tower <05526> [defence. or, covering, or, coverer.]

2:6

gates <08179> [gates.]

dissolves <04127> [dissolved. or, molten.]

2:7

<05324> [Huzzab. or, that which was established; or, there was a stand made. led away captive. or, discovered. doves.]

2:8

days <03117> [of old. or, from the days that she hath been.]

pool <01295> [like.]

Stop Stop <05975> [Stand.]

turns <06437> [look back. or, cause them to turn.]

2:9

Plunder .... Plunder <0962> [ye.]

end .... treasure <07097 08498> [for there is none end of the store. or, and their infinite store, etc.]

precious thing <03627 02532> [pleasant furniture. Heb. vessels of desire.]

2:10

Destruction <0950> [She is.]

Nineveh was taken and utterly ruined by Assuerus, or Cyaxares, king of Media, and Nabuchodonosor, or Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, B.C. 606, or 612. Diodorus, who with others ascribes the taking of it to Arbaces the Mede and Belesis the Babylonian, says that he "dispersed the citizens in the villages, levelled the city with the ground, transferred the gold and silver, of which there were many talents, to Ecbatana the metropolis of the Medes, and this subverted the empire of the Assyrians."

Destruction <0950> [empty.]

hearts <03820> [the heart.]

knees <01290> [the knees.]

churns <02479> [and much.]

face <06440> [and the faces.]