Nahum 2:4

Nahum 2:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.
• New King James Version (NKJV)The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one another in the broad roads; They seem like torches, They run like lightning.
• New Living Translation (NLT)The chariots race recklessly along the streets and rush wildly through the squares. They flash like firelight and move as swiftly as lightning.

Context of Nahum 2:4

2For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches. 3The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. 5He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up. 6The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;

Nahum 2:4 word by word

בַּֽחוּצוֹת֙ יִתְהוֹלְל֣וּ הָרֶ֔כֶב יִֽשְׁתַּקְשְׁק֖וּן בָּרְחֹב֑וֹת מַרְאֵיהֶן֙ כַּלַּפִּידִ֔ם כַּבְּרָקִ֖ים יְרוֹצֵֽצוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• The chariotsרֶ֫כֶבrekeb · chariotH7393
• shall rageהָלַלhâlal · to boast: rave madlyH1984
• in the streetsחוּץchûts chûts · outsideH2351
• they shall justle one against anotherשָׁקַקshâqaq · to rushH8264
• in the broad waysרְחוֹבrechôb rechôb · street/plazaH7339
• they shall seemמַרְאֶהmar'eh · appearanceH4758
• like torchesלַפִּידlappîyd lappid · torchH3940
• they shall runרוּץrûts · to run: runH7323
• like the lightningsבָּרָקbârâq · lightningH1300

Cross-references for Nahum 2:4

• Nahum 3:2The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
• Isaiah 37:24By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.
• Isaiah 66:15"For behold, the Lord will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
• Jeremiah 4:13Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!
• Ezekiel 26:10His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.
• Daniel 11:40"At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.

Commentaries on Nahum 2:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4The chariots shall rage - Those of the besiegers and the besieged, meeting in the streets, producing universal confusion and carnage.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4Chariots were almost impossible to stop in battle due to their speed and strength.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. rage--are driven in furious haste (Jr 46:9). justle one against another--run to and fro [Maurer]. in the broad ways--(2Ch 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 (Pr 8:26, Margin). run like the lightnings--with rapid violence (Mt…Read the comment

Topics related to Nahum 2:4

• Chariot
• Lightning

In the dictionaries

• Devour
• Empty
• Hole
• Justle
• Mightily
• Rage
• Raven
• Smite
• Tabor
• Broad

Commentaries on Nahum 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings