Nahum 2 (NET)

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Nahum 2:1¹(2:2) An enemy who will scatter you, Nineveh, has advanced against you! Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Joel 3:9-11 2 Chr 25:8 Jer 51:20-23 Jer 51:11-12 Jer 50:23 Jer 46:3-10 Isa 14:6 Nah 3:14-15

Nahum 2:2²For the Lord is about to restore the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though their enemies have plundered them and have destroyed their fields.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 37:23 Ps 80:12-13 Zeph 3:11 Isa 60:15 Gen 49:22-23 Hos 10:1 Isa 10:5-12 Jer 25:29 Jer 49:9

Nahum 2:3³The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments. The chariots are in flashing metal fittings on the day of battle; the soldiers brandish their spears.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 23:14-15 Isa 63:1-3 Isa 14:8 Rev 12:3 Rev 6:4 Zech 1:8 Zech 11:2 Zech 6:2

Nahum 2:4⁴The 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:13 Ezek 26:10 Isa 66:15 Nah 3:2-3 Dan 11:40 Isa 37:24

Nahum 2:5⁵The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall, and they set up the covered siege tower.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:12 Isa 21:5 Isa 5:27 Jer 50:29 Jer 51:27-28 Nah 3:18 Nah 3:3

Nahum 2:6⁶The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 45:1-2 2 Pet 3:10-11

Nahum 2:7⁷Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 38:14 Isa 59:11 Isa 32:12 Luke 23:27 Luke 23:48

Nahum 2:8⁸Nineveh 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 10:11 Isa 13:14 Isa 47:13 Isa 48:20 Jer 46:5 Jer 50:16 Jer 51:13 Jer 51:30 Nah 3:17 Rev 17:1

Nahum 2:9⁹Her conquerors cry out: “Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!” There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:10 Dan 11:8 Ezek 26:12 Isa 33:4 Jer 25:34 Jer 51:56 Nah 2:12-13 Isa 33:1

Nahum 2:10¹⁰Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Hearts faint, knees tremble; every stomach churns, all their faces have turned pale!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 5:6 Joel 2:6 Ps 22:14 Isa 13:7-8 Jer 30:6 Isa 21:3 Isa 24:1 Zeph 2:13-15 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 14:23

Nahum 2:11¹¹Where now is the den of the lions and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 5:29 Jer 2:15 Ezek 19:2-8 Gen 49:9 Isa 31:4 Jer 4:7 Jer 50:17 Jer 50:44 Job 4:10-11 Nah 3:1

Nahum 2:12¹²The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:34 Isa 10:6-14 Ps 17:12

Nahum 2:13¹³“I am against you!” declares the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: “I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions. You will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 21:13 Nah 3:5 Ps 46:9 2 Kgs 19:23 2 Kgs 19:9 Ezek 5:8 Isa 49:24-25 Josh 11:9 Nah 3:1 2 Chr 32:19