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Selected Verse: Nahum 2:9 - Strong Concordance

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Na 2:9 Strong Concordance Take ye the spoil [0962] of silver [03701], take the spoil [0962] of gold [02091]: for there is none end [07097] of the store [08498] and glory [03519] out of all the pleasant [02532] furniture [03627].
  King James Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
silver . . . gold--The conquerors are summoned to plunder the city. Nineveh's riches arose from the annual tribute paid by so many subject states, as well as from its extensive merchandise (Nah 3:16; Eze 27:23-24).

store--accumulated by the plunder of subject nations. It is remarkable, that while small articles of value (bronze inlaid with gold, gems, seals, and alabaster vases) are found in the ruins of Nineveh, there are is none of gold and silver. These, as here foretold, were "taken for spoil" before the palaces were set on fire.

glory out of all the pleasant furniture--or, "there is abundance of precious vessels of every kind" [MAURER].
 
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23 Haran [02771], and Canneh [03656], and Eden [05729], the merchants [07402] of Sheba [07614], Asshur [0804], and Chilmad [03638], were thy merchants [07402].
24 These were thy merchants [07402] in all sorts [04360] of things, in blue [08504] clothes [01545], and broidered work [07553], and in chests [01595] of rich apparel [01264], bound [02280] with cords [02256], and made of cedar [0729], among thy merchandise [04819].
16 Thou hast multiplied [07235] thy merchants [07402] above the stars [03556] of heaven [08064]: the cankerworm [03218] spoileth [06584], and flieth away [05774].
10 Thou didst blow [05398] with thy wind [07307], the sea [03220] covered [03680] them: they sank [06749] as lead [05777] in the mighty [0117] waters [04325].
8 And he said [0559], This is wickedness [07564]. And he cast [07993] it into the midst [08432] of the ephah [0374]; and he cast [07993] the weight [068] of lead [05777] upon the mouth [06310] thereof.
22 A good [02896] man leaveth an inheritance [05157] to his children's [01121] children [01121]: and the wealth [02428] of the sinner [02398] is laid up [06845] for the just [06662].
10 For he seeth [07200] that wise men [02450] die [04191], likewise [03162] the fool [03684] and the brutish person [01198] perish [06], and leave [05800] their wealth [02428] to others [0312].
1 Woe [01945] to thee that spoilest [07703], and thou wast not spoiled [07703]; and dealest treacherously [0898], and they dealt not treacherously [0898] with thee! when thou shalt cease [08552] to spoil [07703], thou shalt be spoiled [07703]; and when thou shalt make an end [05239] to deal treacherously [0898], they shall deal treacherously [0898] with thee.