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Nahum 2

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1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily! ✦ 2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches. ✦ 3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. ✦ 4The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. ✦ 5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. ✦ 6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. ✦ 7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. ✦ 8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back. ✦ 9Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture. ✦ 10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. ✦ 11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid? ✦ 12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey. ✦ 13“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Nah 3 ·10Jer 51 ·9Jer 50 ·6Isa 13 ·3Isa 14 ·3Jer 4 ·3Zeph 3 ·3Isa 33 ·3

Christ at the center

The certain judgment on Nineveh and the comfort that 'the LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble' point to Christ, who is both the refuge of his people and the judge of their enemies.

How Nahum 2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Nahum 2David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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