Nahum 2:5
He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 46:12 : 12 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
- Jer 50:29 : 29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her round about; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.
- Jer 51:27-28 : 27 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm. 28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors of it, and all the deputies of it, and all the land of their dominion.
- Nah 3:3 : 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 3:18 : 18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
- Isa 5:27 : 27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
- Isa 21:5 : 5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you princes, anoint the shield.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Joel 2:7-93 verses78%
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.
8 Neither does one jostle another; They march everyone in his path, And they burst through the defenses, And don't break ranks.
9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
- Nah 2:3-42 verses78%
3 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.
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.
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1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily!
- Ezek 26:9-124 verses77%
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.
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
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6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
- Isa 22:5-73 verses74%
5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
6 Elam bore the 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.
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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.
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12 The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
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15 For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,
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8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
- 73%
10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
- 72%
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.
- Isa 5:27-282 verses72%
27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; None shall slumber nor sleep; Neither shall the belt of their loins be untied, Nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
28 Whose arrows are sharp, And all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, And their wheels like a whirlwind.
- 72%
9 Who brings sudden destruction on the strong, So that destruction comes on the fortress.
- 72%
18 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes of it, against the priests of it, and against the people of the land.
- 72%
16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
- 72%
10 and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall;
- 71%
14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
- 71%
10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.
- 71%
9 His rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed at the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
- 71%
19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
- 71%
5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Hosts their God.'
- 71%
12 The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
- 71%
6 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
- 71%
5 He took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised [it] up to the towers, and the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo [in] the city of David, and made weapons and shields in abundance.
- 71%
16 Their quiver is an open tomb, they are all mighty men.
- 71%
15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to stand.
- 71%
11 A day to build your walls-- In that day, he will extend your boundary.
- Jer 6:4-52 verses71%
4 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
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1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city; salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
- 70%
12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
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25 Your men shall fall by the sword, And your mighty in the war.
- 70%
20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
- 70%
37 They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
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7 Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
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14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
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2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
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2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
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22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, And brings down the strength of its confidence.