Nahum 2:3

American Standard Version (1901)

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress [spears] are brandished.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 23:14-15 : 14 And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
  • Zech 1:8 : 8 I saw in the night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.
  • Zech 6:2 : 2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
  • Zech 11:2 : 2 Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.
  • Rev 6:4 : 4 And another [horse] came forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
  • Rev 12:3 : 3 And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
  • Isa 14:8 : 8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us.
  • Isa 63:1-3 : 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yea, I trod them in mine anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood [ is sprinkled upon my garments, and I have stained all my raiment.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 2:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.

    5He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

  • Joel 2:2-7
    6 verses
    78%

    2a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

    3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.

    4The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run.

    5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

    6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

    7They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.

  • Isa 22:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

    7And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

    8And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

  • Nah 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

    3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;--

  • Nah 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

    2For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.

  • Jer 46:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

    4Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

    5Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.

  • Isa 31:9
    73%

    9And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, saith Jehovah, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 5:28
    73%

    28whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:

  • Jer 22:7
    73%

    7And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

    10By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

  • Jer 46:9
    72%

    9Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

  • Jer 47:3
    72%

    3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

  • Isa 10:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

    18And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

  • Isa 9:5
    72%

    5For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.

  • Zech 10:5
    71%

    5And they shall be as mighty men, treading down [their enemies] in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • Jer 6:23
    71%

    23They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

  • Hab 1:8
    71%

    8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.

  • Joel 3:9
    71%

    9Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

  • Isa 30:32
    70%

    32And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with [the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them.

  • Joel 2:10
    70%

    10The earth quaketh before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Hag 2:22
    70%

    22and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

  • Lam 2:3
    70%

    3He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

  • Ezek 39:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

    10so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Isa 63:2
    70%

    2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

  • Isa 31:4
    70%

    4For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

  • Isa 37:24
    70%

    24By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;

  • Jer 4:13
    70%

    13Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.

  • Job 39:23
    70%

    23The quiver rattleth against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.

  • Jer 46:22
    69%

    22The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

  • Ps 120:4
    69%

    4Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

  • Zech 6:2
    69%

    2In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

  • Ezek 38:19
    69%

    19For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

  • Ps 97:3
    69%

    3A fire goeth before him, And burneth up his adversaries round about.

  • Zech 11:2
    69%

    2Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.