the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Nahum 2:5
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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.
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 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.
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 remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.
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 remembereth his worthies: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The soldiers are obedient to their officers; they stumble as they march; they make haste to the wall, and the battlements are prepared.
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 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.
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 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.
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
The gold of that land is exceptionally pure; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there.
So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.
Later she gave birth to his brother and named him Abel. When they grew up, Abel became a shepherd, while Cain cultivated the ground.
No longer will the ground yield good crops for you, no matter how hard you work! From now on you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth."
He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.
You cause grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to use. You allow them to produce food from the earth—
He causes the clouds to rise over the whole earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
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.
