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Nahum 2:5
Nahum 2:5 is verse 5 of Nahum chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
King James Version
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
World English Bible
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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Nahum 2:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.
4 The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.
5 He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.
6 The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
7 It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Isaiah 21:5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
Jeremiah 50:29Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:27“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
Jeremiah 51:28Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
Nahum 3:3Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
Isaiah 5:27None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
Jeremiah 46:12The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”