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Selected Verse: Nahum 2:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Na 2:4 |
Strong Concordance |
The chariots [07393] shall rage [01984] in the streets [02351], they shall justle one against another [08264] in the broad ways [07339]: they shall seem [04758] like torches [03940], they shall run [07323] like the lightnings [01300]. |
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King James |
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
rage--are driven in furious haste (Jer 46:9).
justle one against another--run to and fro [MAURER].
in the broad ways-- (Ch2 32:6). Large open spaces in the suburbs of Nineveh.
they shall seem like torches--literally, "their (feminine in Hebrew) appearance (is)": namely, the appearance of the broad places is like that of torches, through the numbers of chariots in them flashing in the sun (Pro 8:26, Margin).
run like the lightnings--with rapid violence (Mat 24:27; Luk 10:18). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| In the streets - Of Nineveh, when taken. Justle - By reason of their multitude and fury. In the broad ways - Where is most room, and yet scarce enough for them to move. Like torches - What with sparkling fire caused by their horses and chariots, what with the glittering of the polished irons about them, and what with the light of flaming torches carried in them. Like the lightnings - Both for speed, irrestibleness and terror. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The chariots shall rage - Those of the besiegers and the besieged, meeting in the streets, producing universal confusion and carnage. |
18 And [1161] he said [2036] unto them [846], I beheld [2334] Satan [4567] as [5613] lightning [796] fall [4098] from [1537] heaven [3772].
27 For [1063] as [5618] the lightning [796] cometh [1831] out of [575] the east [395], and [2532] shineth [5316] even unto [2193] the west [1424]; so [3779] shall [2071] also [2532] the coming [3952] of the Son [5207] of man [444] be [2071].
26 While as yet he had not made [06213] the earth [0776], nor the fields [02351], nor the highest part [07218] of the dust [06083] of the world [08398].
6 And he set [05414] captains [08269] of war [04421] over the people [05971], and gathered them together [06908] to him in the street [07339] of the gate [08179] of the city [05892], and spake [01696] comfortably [03824] to them, saying [0559],
9 Come up [05927], ye horses [05483]; and rage [01984], ye chariots [07393]; and let the mighty men [01368] come forth [03318]; the Ethiopians [03568] and the Libyans [06316], that handle [08610] the shield [04043]; and the Lydians [03866], that handle [08610] and bend [01869] the bow [07198].