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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Nahum 3:3 - 3:3
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horseman - distinct from “the horses” (in the chariots, Nah 3:2).
lifteth up - denoting readiness for fight [Ewald]. Gesenius translates, “lifteth up (literally, ‘makes to ascend’) his horse.” Similarly Maurer, “makes his horse to rise up on his hind feet.” Vulgate translates, “ascending,” that is, making his horse to advance up to the assault. This last is perhaps better than English Version.
the bright sword and the glittering spear - literally, “the glitter of the sword and the flash of the spear!” This, as well as the translation, “the horseman advancing up,” more graphically presents the battle scene to the eye.
they stumble upon their corpses - The Medo-Babylonian enemy stumble upon the Assyrian corpses.