Nahum 2:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

I will burn

Joshua 11:9

2 Kings 19:23

Psalm 46:9

And the sword

Isaiah 31:8

Isaiah 37:36

I will cut

Nahum 3:1

Isaiah 33:1

Isaiah 49:24

The voice

2 Kings 18:17

2 Kings 19:9

2 Chronicles 32:9

General references

Jeremiah 51:21

Bible References

I will burn

Joshua did to them as the Lord had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.

‘Through your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest.

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.

And the sword

And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of man will devour him.
So he will

not escape the sword,

And his young men will become forced laborers.

Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

I will cut

Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;

Her prey never departs.

Woe to you, O destroyer,
While you were not destroyed;
And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.
As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed;
As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

“Can the prey be taken from the mighty man,
Or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?”

The voice

Then the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large army to Jerusalem. So they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they went up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the fuller’s field.

When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying,

After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

General references

“With you I shatter the horse and his rider,
And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,