--- title: "Nahum 2 - Study King James Bible with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible" description: "Read Nahum 2 with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible commentary. 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. 2 For the LOR" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/nahum/2" --- [ Read](/kjv/nahum/2)[ Commentary](/study/nahum/2)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/nahum/2) Audio 1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make *thy* loins strong, fortify *thy* power mightily.* 2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.* 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men *are* in scarlet: the chariots *shall be* with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.** 4 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.* 5 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.** 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.* 7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead *her* as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.** 8 But Nineveh *is* of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, *shall they cry;* but none shall look back.** 9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for *there is* none end of the store *and* glory out of all the pleasant furniture.** 10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain *is* in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. 11 Where *is* the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, *even* the old lion, walked, *and* the lion’s whelp, and none made *them* afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. 13 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. [Nahum 1](/study/nahum/1) [Nahum 3](/study/nahum/3) ## Commentary To verse 1 **1. He that dasheth in pieces**—God's "battle axe," wherewith He "breaks in pieces" His enemies. [Jeremiah 51:20](/kjv/jeremiah/51/20) applies the same *Hebrew* term to Nebuchadnezzar (compare [Proverbs 25:18](/kjv/proverbs/25/18); [Jeremiah 50:23](/kjv/jeremiah/50/23), "the hammer of the whole earth"). Here the Medo-Babylonian army under Cyaxares and Nabopolassar, that destroyed Nineveh, is prophetically meant. **before thy face**—before Nineveh. *Openly,* so that the work of God may be manifest. **watch the way**—by which the foe will attack, so as to be ready to meet him. Ironical advice; equivalent to a prophecy, Thou shalt have need to use all possible means of defense; but use what thou wilt, all will be in vain. **make thy loins strong**—The loins are the seat of strength; to gird them up is to prepare all one's strength for conflict ([Jeremiah 50:23](/kjv/jeremiah/50/23)- :). 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