KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Nahum 3:1–2
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Nahum 3:1
1WOE to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
1¶ †*Woe to the bloody City, it is all full of lyes and robberie, the pray departeth not.
- Heb. Citie of bloods.
- Eze.24.9. hab.2.10.
Nahum 3:2
2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
2The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheeles, and of the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets.
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DEFINED WORDS
Nahum 3:1
Murderous, bloodguilty, or characterized by the shedding of blood.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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False statements or deceptions; as a verb, reclines, remains, is situated, or speaks falsely.
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A plundering; a pillaging; a taking away by violence, wrong or oppression.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Booty or spoil taken by force; an animal or person hunted or seized.
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Leaves, goes away, or turns aside.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Nahum 3:2
A sound, especially a loud sound, report, or outcry; as a verb, to spread by report.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To strike with a lash or sweeping cord.
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A rapid succession of sharp sounds.
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Circular objects that turn upon axles; by context, cart wheels, threshing wheels, wheels at wells, or the wheels described in Ezekiel's visions.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Large hoofed animals used for riding, drawing chariots, and war.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Leaping; springing; bounding.
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Wheeled vehicles used for travel or war.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
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From verse 1
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Open the full verse study12¶ Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
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Open the full verse study1WOE to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.
3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
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Open the full verse study2Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
3Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.
7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
8That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
9Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
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Open the full verse study2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
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Open the full verse study12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
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Open the full verse study14And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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Open the full verse study24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
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Open the full verse study9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study3At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;
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Open the full verse study3The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4The 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.
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Open the full verse study22He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
24He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
25He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
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Open the full verse study22Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
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Open the full verse study5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
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