Nahum 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

The chariots shall rage in the streets - shall be driven in furious haste (Jeremiah 46:9, "Come up, ye horses, and rage, ye chariots").

They shall justle one against another - run to and fro (Maurer). They shall justle one against another - run to and fro (Maurer).

In the broad ways - (2 Chronicles 32:6, "in the street of the gate of the city"). Large open spaces in the suburbs of Nineveh.

They shall seem like torches - literally, 'their (feminine in Hebrew) appearance' (is) - namely, the appearance of the broad places-is like that of torches, through the numbers of chariots in them flashing in the sun (margin, Proverbs 8:26, 'open places').

They shall run like the lightnings - with rapid violence (Matthew 24:27, "As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be;" Luke 10:18).

Nahum 2:4

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.