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Nahum 2:5
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He gives orders to his officers;they stumble as they advance.They race to its wall;the protective shield is set in place.
He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
Hee shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walke: they shall make haste to the wal thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.
He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.
He remembers his officers; They stumble in their advance, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up.
He calls his officers, but they stumble on the way. They hurry to the city wall, and the shield is put into place.
He remembers and summons his nobles; They stumble in their march [terrified because of the attack]. They hurry to the city wall, And the mantelet is prepared and firmly set up.
He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they goe: they shall make haste to the walles thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.
He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up.
He remembers his mighty ones;They stumble in their march;They hurry to her wall,And the mantelet is set up.
He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
An officer gives a command. But his soldiers stumble, as they hasten to build a shelter to protect themselves against rocks thrown down from the city wall.
The chariots rush madly about in the streets, jostling each other in the open places; their appearance is like torches, they run here and there like lightning.
He bethinketh him of his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the shelter is prepared.
The enemy calls for his best soldiers. They stumble as they rush ahead. They run to the wall and set up their shield over the battering ram.
The soldiers are obedient to their officers; they stumble as they march; they make haste to the wall, and the battlements are prepared.
The officers are summoned; they stumble as they press forward. The attackers rush to the wall and set up the shield for the battering ram.
He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering in place.
He shall remember its nobles; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall hurry to its wall, and the covering shall be set up.
He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
The chariots rush madly in the streets, they jostle one against another in the broad places; the appearance of them is like torches, they run to and fro like the lightnings.
He shall remember his notable souldiours, they shal stumble in goyng, they shall hasten to the wall, the couering fence is prepared.
And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defences.
He remembereth his worthies: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
He schal bithenke of his stronge men, thei schulen falle in her weies; and swiftli thei schulen stie on the wallis therof, and schadewyng place schal be maad redi.
He remembers his nobles: they stumble in their march; they hurry to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.
The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower.
He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their walk; They make haste to her walls, And the defense is prepared.
The king shouts to his officers; they stumble in their haste, rushing to the walls to set up their defenses.
The leaders are called. They lose their step as they go, and hurry to the wall. The battle-covering is set up.
He calls his officers; they stumble as they come forward; they hasten to the wall, and the mantelet is set up.
Let him call to mind his nobles, they shall stumble as they go - let them hasten to her wall, yet the storming cover, is prepared.
He will muster up his valiant men, they shall stumble in their march: they shall quickly get upon the walls thereof: and a covering shall be prepared.
The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.
He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten [to] its wall, and prepared is the covering.
When he doth but warne his giauntes, they fall in their araye, & haistely they clymme vp the walles: yee the engyns of the warre are prepared all ready.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
recount: Isaiah 21:5, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28
worthies: or, gallants
they shall stumble: Nahum 3:3, Isaiah 5:27, Jeremiah 46:12
defence: or, covering, or, coverer
Reciprocal: Revelation 9:9 - and the
Cross-References
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He shall recount his worthies,.... Either the dasher in pieces, Nahum 2:1, the kings of Babylon and Media, shall call together their general officers, and muster the forces under then, and put them in mind of their duty, and recount the actions of their ancestors in former times, in order to animate and encourage them to the siege and attack of the city of Nineveh; or the king of Assyria shall recount and muster up his nobles, and the troops under them, to sally out against the enemy, and meet him in the field, and give him battle:
they shall stumble in their walk: being many, and in haste to obey the orders of their commander, shall stumble and fall upon one another; or else the Ninevites in their march out against the enemy shall be discomfited and flee before him, or be dispirited and flee back again:
they shall make haste to the wall thereof; of Nineveh; that is, the Medes and Chaldeans shall make haste thither, to break it down or scale it; or the Ninevites, failing in their sally out, shall betake themselves in all haste to their city walls, and defend themselves under the protection of them:
and the defence shall be prepared; or the "covering": the word h used has the signification of a booth or tent, to cover and protect; here it signifies something that was prepared, either by the besiegers, to cover them from the darts and stones of the besieged, as they made their approaches to the walls; or which the besieged covered themselves with from the assaults of the besiegers; rather the former.
h הסוכך "operimentum", Pagninus, Montanus; "integumentum", Calvin; "testudo", Vatablus, Grotius, Cocceius, Burkius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He shall recount his worthies - The Assyrian king wakes as out of a sleep, literally, “he remembers his mighty men” (as Nahum 3:18; Judges 5:13; Nehemiah 3:5); “they stumble in their walk,” literally, paths , not through haste only and eager fear, but from want of inward might and the aid of God. These whom God leads stumble not Isaiah 63:13. : “Perplexed every way and not knowing what they ought to do, their mind wholly darkened and almost drunken with ills, they reel to and fro, turn from one thing to another, and in all” labor in vain.
They shall make haste to the walls thereof, and the defense - (literally, “the covering”) shall be prepared The Assyrian monuments leave no doubt that a Jewish writer is right in the main, in describing this as a covered shelter, under which an enemy approached the city; “a covering of planks with skins upon them; under it those who fight against the city come to the wall and mine the wall underneath, and it is a shield over them from the stones, which are cast from off the wall.”
The monuments, however, exhibit this shelter, as connected not with mining but with a battering ram, mostly with a sharp point, by which they loosened the walls . Another covert was employed to protect single miners who picked out single stones with a pick-axe . The Assyrians sculptures show, in the means employed against or in defense of their engines, how central a part of the siege they formed . Seven of them are represented in one siege . The “ram” Ezekiel 4:2 is mentioned in Ezekiel as the well-known and ordinary instrument of a siege.
Thus, Nahum 2:3 describes the attack; and Nahum 2:4 describes the defense; the two first clauses of Nahum 2:5 describes the defense; the two last describe clauses the attack. This quick interchange only makes the whole account more vivid.
: “But what avails it to build the house, unless the Lord build it? What helps it to shut the gates, which the Lord unbarreth?” On both sides is put forth the full strength of man; there seems a stand-still to see, what will be, and God brings to pass His own work in His own way.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. He shall recount his worthies — Muster up his most renowned warriors and heroes.
Shall make haste to the wall — Where they see the enemies making their most powerful attacks, in order to get possession of the city.
