Nahum 2:3

World English Bible (2000)

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 pine spears are brandished.

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  • Ezek 23:14-15 : 14 She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, 15 dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.
  • Zech 1:8 : 8 "I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.
  • Zech 6:2 : 2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;
  • Zech 11:2 : 2 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.
  • Rev 6:4 : 4 Another came forth, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.
  • Rev 12:3 : 3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
  • Isa 14:8 : 8 Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."
  • Isa 63:1-3 : 1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save." 2 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat? 3 "I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

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  • Nah 2:4-5
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    4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

    5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

  • Joel 2:2-7
    6 verses
    78%

    2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

    3 A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

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

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

    6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

    7 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.

  • Isa 22:6-8
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    6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

    7 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

    8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

  • Nah 3:2-3
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    74%

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

    3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

  • Nah 2:1-2
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    1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

    2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

  • Jer 46:3-5
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    3 Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

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

    5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

  • Isa 31:9
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    9 His rock will pass away by reason of terror, and his princes will be afraid of the banner," says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

  • Isa 5:28
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    28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7 I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Ezek 26:9-10
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    9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

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

  • Jer 46:9
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    9 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

  • Jer 47:3
    72%

    3 At 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 don't look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

  • Isa 10:17-18
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    17 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.

    18 He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

  • Isa 9:5
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    5 For all the armor of the armed man in the noisy battle, and the garments rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

  • Zech 10:5
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    5 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

  • Jer 6:23
    71%

    23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

  • Hab 1:8
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    8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

  • Joel 3:9
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    9 Proclaim this among the nations: "Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.

  • Isa 30:32
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    32 Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

  • Joel 2:10
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    10 The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Hag 2:22
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    22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

  • Lam 2:3
    70%

    3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

  • Ezek 39:9-10
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    70%

    9 Those who 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 war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

    10 so 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 who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Isa 63:2
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    2 Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

  • Isa 31:4
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    4 For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

  • Isa 37:24
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    24 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.

  • Jer 4:13
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    13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots [shall be] as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

  • Job 39:23
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    23 The quiver rattles against him, the flashing spear and the javelin.

  • Jer 46:22
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    22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

  • Ps 120:4
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    4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

  • Zech 6:2
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    2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot black horses;

  • Ezek 38:19
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    19 For 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;

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    3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

  • Zech 11:2
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    2 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.