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Text -- Nahum 2:1-12 (NET)
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Proclamation of the Destruction of Nineveh
2:1 The watchmen of Nineveh shout: “An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you !” “Guard the rampart ! Watch the road ! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength !”
2:2 For the Lord will restore the majesty of Jacob , as well as the majesty of Israel , though their enemies have plundered them and have destroyed their fields .
Prophetic Vision of the Fall of Nineveh
2:3 The shields of his warriors are dyed red ; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments . The metal fittings of the chariots shine like fire on the day of battle ; the soldiers brandish their spears .
2:4 The chariots race madly through the streets , they rush back and forth in the broad plazas ; they look like lightning bolts , they dash here and there like flashes of lightning .
2:5 The commander orders his officers ; they stumble as they advance ; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower .
2:6 The sluice gates are opened ; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves .
2:7 Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away ; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts .
2:8 Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days , but now her people are running away ; she cries out: “Stop ! Stop !”– but no one turns back .
2:9 Her conquerors cry out: “Plunder the silver ! Plunder the gold !” There is no end to the treasure ; riches of every kind of precious thing .
2:10 Destruction , devastation , and desolation ! Their hearts faint , their knees tremble , each stomach churns , each face turns pale !
Taunt against the Once-Mighty Lion
2:11 Where now is the den of the lions , the feeding place of the young lions , where the lion , lioness , and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?
2:12 The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey to provide food for his lionesses ; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
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NET Notes -> Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:1; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:2; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:3; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:4; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:5; Nah 2:6; Nah 2:6; Nah 2:6; Nah 2:6; Nah 2:6; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:7; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:8; Nah 2:9; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:10; Nah 2:11; Nah 2:11; Nah 2:11; Nah 2:11; Nah 2:11; Nah 2:11; Nah 2:12; Nah 2:12; Nah 2:12
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NET Notes: Nah 2:2 Heb “their vine-branches.” The term “vine-branches” is a figurative expression (synecdoche of part for the whole) representing...
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NET Notes: Nah 2:4 Or simply, “like lightning.” The term “lightning flash” (בָּרָק, baraq) is often used to c...
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NET Notes: Nah 2:5 The Hebrew term translated covered siege tower probably does not refer to a battering ram, but to a movable protective tower, used to cover the soldie...
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NET Notes: Nah 2:6 Or “the palace collapses and crumbles.” The Hophal perfect 3rd person masculine singular וְהֻצַּ...
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NET Notes: Nah 2:8 Or “can turn [them] back.” The Hebrew verb ָָפּנַה (panah, “to turn”) often describe...
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NET Notes: Nah 2:10 The Hebrew term פָּארוּר (pa’rur) occurs only here and in Joel 2:6 where it also describes a fea...
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NET Notes: Nah 2:11 Or “and no one frightened [them].” Alternately, reflecting a different division of the lines, “Where the lion [and] lioness [once] p...
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